The Lovers

I thought that this was quite an interesting game concept in terms of spatiality and the puzzle game. It is by SHUSHgame, so Barry Atkins, writter of More Than A Game: Computer Games as Fictional Form and Videogame, Player, Text (and blogger SHUSH!). It is a nice example with what can be developed as a simple flash game that plays with space.

The Lovers
Added: 15 August 2008
By: Shushgame

Seeing Genre

I thought that it would be useful for you to know about this article by Rune Klevjer - Genre Blindness http://www.digra.org/hardcore/hc11 as it looks at Genre Studies in the field of Game Studies (or the lack there of) and is a call to arms to re-evaluate the usefulness of Genre Studies as a topology.

“… we need to take genre more seriously because we need to take the games themselves more seriously. We need to look for the significant difference before we settle for the well-formed generalisation. Genre blindness means game blindness.”

hc11: Rune Klevjer - Genre Blindness http://www.digra.org/hardcore/hc11 (accessed 13/11/08)

Rune Klevjer's website has a list of his publications which might be useful to you http://folk.uib.no/smkrk/ and something that might be useful to people studying FPS' for their essay is his paper Way of The Gun: The aesthetic of the single-player First Person Shooter

CVE > CAVE

I am trying to organise a "field trip" to the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) at Salford's Peel Park Campus, the CAVE is part Salfords award winning research base "The Centre for Virtual Environments" (CVE). CVE houses one of the world's largest collections of apparatus for virtual environments.

I have contacted CVE and they have asked how many students will want to visit. The date of the visits will be 11th December... Salford is said to have the world's biggest CAVE and it is currently being rebuilt and refurbished.

Visit http://www.nicve.salford.ac.uk/facilities/ to view CVE's facilities.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ey61u9J5Bgs