Tag Archives: Games

“Play Money” and RMT is why I will never play MMORPGs again.

I just got finished reading Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell, and I must say that no book in recent memory has riled me up so much. Don’t get me wrong – I am not angry because I am naive about virtual worlds [...]
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Capstone Presentation Video

I recently finished my Master’s Capstone presentation and will be adding it to my portfolio when I get the chance. In the meantime I have made a video of the final presentation available. There is an introduction by Marty Siegel followed by my presentation and some follow up questions. Also, here is the poster for [...]
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Critical Analysis Pre-Writing

In this post, I am attempting to make some sense of my argument for a paper I am planning to write.  For this paper I am doing a critical analysis of World of Warcraft’s FigurePrints service. In making my thoughts and assumptions explicit, I have very strong opinions about how World of Warcraft favors certain [...]
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Phenomenological Reading of WoW Machinima

For my Interaction Culture class I decided to a close phenomological reading of a bit of machinima made from WoW clips set to the song “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down. It has been an interesting journey. It is incredible to think that some clips from World of Warcraft set to a cheesy late [...]
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MMORPGs and HCI

I have always loved RPG games. I often think about how RPGs and MMORPGs can relate to HCI. There are probably a ton of people who could talk on this subject better than I will, but I will spit out my couple of cents anyway. I am considering doing my Master’s capstone project on the [...]
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