Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Lecture 8

Are Games a Waste of Time
The military uses games for training purposes.
Narratology is the study of video games. It is the study of them as stories and literacy point of view. These people believe that games can be studied like texts. Ludology is also the study of video games this time this major concern is the 'game play' elements not the story. People involved in this study believe that the story is only there for decoration. Jesper Juul raised the question of 'are video games similar to other games?'.

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