I played the game Every Day the Same Dream. The theme of the game is about how society is alive, but not really living. It emphasizes how it is natural for people to go through the motions of life — wake up, go to work, come home, go to sleep…

This week I played the game Digital Cards Against Calamity. In this game the player becomes the mayor of a town and guides the community through times of trouble. The costal towns are hit with devastations such as flooding, hurricanes, and mud slides. Each devastation gives the player a variety…

For this weeks journal entry I decided to play Freedom Fighters. This political game focuses on stopping the spread of communism when the Soviet Union invades the US. Throughout the game the main character Chris, with the help of others, sabotages the Soviet Union in efforts to reclaim freedom for…

I love the idea of artistic glitches. I find it so interesting how the imperfections of todays technology can serve as more than a “bug” or “failure”. The glitch I chose to examine today is a glitch installation by Sabato Visionti. It is a booth that makes the people and…

I agree with Matthew Fuller’s definition of a glitch as “an unpredictable change in the system’s behavior” (Fuller 110). In gaming glitches aren’t necessarily errors, but they change the state of game in a way it’s not meant to be played. This can done by altering the atmosphere, character, sound…

This week I watched Featherfall created by Total Refusal, introduced by Matteo Bittani. While watching this game it was easy to see how the artists were connecting the relationship between the falling sensations of a nightmare and games. To create the falling sensation, the game mod focuses on “a glitch…

For this weeks game journal I watched a Minecraft 3 game modification. The players create different soups and potions to make dinosaurs in the game grow drastically in a short amount of time. In order for the players to artificially grow the dinosaurs, they had to strategically feed them so…

This week I played Wonder Woman Versus the World from Injustice 2. Injustice 2 operates using Unreal Engine 3, which was released in 2004. Unreal Engine 3 encompasses all the things that Henry Lowood defines as a game engine, including “program code that defines a game’s essential “core” functions, such…

For this journal entry I’m analyzing Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Compared to other video games, Animal Crossing is very relaxing to play. Everything from the interface of the game to the activities the player completes makes everything feel interconnected. As a life simulation game, players have different tasks they have…