Showcase!

I was amazed at the showcase and the submissions for awards. The animations, short videos, and our classes games really made a creative collection between the three. However, looking at the class game the one that I really enjoyed was Draco's quest. The original idea of having Dragons collecting and battling for food resources was simply fantastic. The random cards that must be picked up after certain food tokens, gives the game an unpredictable edge as well.

The board may not have been in 3-D like some of the other boards. But it made up for it with creatively designed game pieces and well drawn dragon cards. The creators obviously took the time and effort to not only make the game understandable but entertaining as well.

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Blog post 8

For today's blog post we must choose one of the concepts from the first five chapters from Bogost (art, empathy, reverence, music, pranks) that you find interesting. Use quotations from that chapter and specific examples from your knowledge and experience to discuss, explore, and make an interesting and non-obvious argument about that term in contexts separate from video games in a way that extends, contradicts, or goes beyond what Bogost is saying. ("Art is important" or "We need empathy" are examples of obvious arguments.)

Above video game screen shots as listed from top to bottom (Ico, Zelda Twilight Princess, Rayman 2d, and Journey)

Above are famous painting recognized by the art world (Russian artist, Picasso,famous love painting, Tintoretto, famous owl painting, Japanese painting, Duchamp toilet)

I Remember...

I remember playing my first video game and going to my first art museum. Walking through the art museum happened first though. My first art museum I have ever went to was NOMA or the New Orleans art museum.

 I remember wandering through the halls and my parents' loud whispers about my excitement with the art. At the same time I remember the first game system that I have ever played. A green game boy color. My parents' whispers became yells as they found me wide awake at ungodly hours playing the "good for nothing junk".

Now in our books, in the first chapter, of the first line, of the first sentence there is a question.: "Are games art?" I think a better question is "what is art, and can games be classified under it?" But for us to understand this we have to go back in time and look at art through the ages.

(Below: are SOME of the major art periods)

(ancient Egyptian art)

(ancient Greek art)

(ancient Roman art)

(Byzantine art)

(Renaissance art)

(Mannerism and Baroque)

(Rocco)

(Neoclassicism)

(Romanticism)

(Realism)

(Impressionism)

(Post Impressionism)

(Expressionism)

(The Fauves)

(Futurism)

(Cubism)

(Surrealism)
(DADA)

(Geometric art)

(Abstract expressionism)

(Pop art)

(Op art)

(New figuration)

(Outsider art)

(Multiculturalism art)

(Street art)

As you can see art has changed vastly over our history. (And all of these pieces are recognized as major art icons.) What in one period may be acceptable it may not be in another period. Which brings us back to the question: "What is art?"

In Ancient Egypt art was to record history, to worship the gods, and great Pharaohs. Romanticism art was all about painting these grand ideas of love and conquest. DADA wanted to change the perspective of the viewer on any aspect of life or imagination. Street art took back alleys and made them into beautiful creations. If you were to boil all this down, art can be described as ( a view-able object or image that forces the viewer or viewers to realize or believe something because of the image.) This definition I believe can be taken to video games.

Video games....

As shown above video games can now show images that rival even the most well known art pieces. Not only can the viewer be forced to believe or realize something because of the viewable image, but they can also interact with the "art" as well. So not only are video games art but they may be the most powerful known version of art. I believe that video games can even be called the next art movement. When searching the web for the art above I found these images:

To question that video games are art is to question what is art. And I believe that art is a view-able object or image that forces the viewer or viewers to realize or believe something because of the image. I also believe that video games have a huge role in today's concept of art and that it is even becoming a movement in the art world.

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Blog post 7

Write a blog entry. The stock option: write an anthropogical examination of the communicative conventions of a blogging or other online social media subculture (for example, mommyblogs, right-wing politics blogs, Harry Potter fanfic blogs, model railroader discussion boards, et cetera: seek out a group that your classmates might not be familiar with), investigating who the members of the group are, what types of language they use, what types of arguments they make, how they use media, and what types of messages are acceptable or unacceptable in the group.

In the online game World of Warcraft there is a page that allows for players to commune about bug glitches and other problems in the game. The group of players have their own “game” language and usually can help each other to fix problems. This “game” language includes words such as, “Dks, warlocks, druids, spec trees, noobs, bugs dungeons, raids, arena battles, pvp, alliance, and afk.” This community believes in trying to create best characters for their chosen faction. Players will use their character account to login to use the faq forums, to identify different players their character’s picture, name, and level will appear. Most players are between the ages of 10 and 30. To get their points of view across they only use text media for example:

Exdemon “Get rid of realms, go to an open server format, have an auction house server/trade server, then multiple other community related servers.

Location servers, etc. Stop limiting us to a certain server so you can suck up millions in xfers. You have the technology to run an open server format, DO IT. Stop wasting this time to merge realms, it solves nothing, as people come and go and unbalance the dedicated realms once again.”

Neissarra 51 minutes ago

“My realm, Tanaris has been dying slowly as these realm connections go on, since it's low population now, people want to change realms more. This realm used to be medium before, but I hope you notice or have considered the change. I honestly feel the same about other low population normal realms, if they aren't on the list (which would be a few of them) please consider it sooner, as they should at least be added before more medium population ones, or even added to if you're still worried about changing medium population realms.”

These accusations are normal in this forum and are actually welcomed because it allows the game company to understand what players want and lets other players figure out glitches for themselves. However, comments like this are not welcome:

• Coradwee 2 days ago

whatever this closs realm and connected is what killing wow 90% of rhe realm wow connecting is pvp realm it will work if you only works on pve pvp realms lowball killing is up 10,000% wend you connected ony to lb and bb 99,99% of onyget off think you for killing my realm all lb and bb do all day is call all ony playeras fags and lobos ty wow you sicks bye

This comment is not welcome because it is over-criticizing other players with extremely poor word choice. When this happens other players will reciprocate. 

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Marleysghost 1 day ago

@Coradwee:
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Strífe 1 day ago

@Coradwee: speak English fool

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Fröhlich 23 hours ago

@Coradwee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDTLphIVY

This dedicated group will stay up into the early hours of the day trying to build their characters and help create their areas to become better for others. By using this forum they are not only doing this but, also creating a sub culture of players.