Making A Game During A Pandemic: CoronArt

When I first started ideating my game, I knew that I didn’t just want to make another card game or board game. I originally wanted to make some form of Augmented Reality game which I could set up on campus. However, the Coronavirus, remote learning and social distancing quickly made this impossible. It also made […]

Contextual Essay

For my Digital Artefact, I decided to write a series of weekly blog posts discussing the future of the video game industry, technology, and culture. The goal was to write one blog post a week on a differing topic of interest, with each post being roughly 500 to 800 words in length and were to […]

Live-Tweeting Summary #2

My system for live-tweeting in this subject hasn’t changed too much since my previous summary. I continued to draft tweets several days before live-tweeting. Not only did this give me more time to find engaging sources, but allowed me to spend more time interacting with other students tweets, as well as enabling me to focus more intently […]

Predictive Power and Surveilance Captialism

According to Shoshana Zuboff, Surveillance capitalism “Claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data, and fabricated into prediction products that anticipate what you will do now and later”. Whenever we interact with online media, we leave a trace of our interests and preferences. This data will more than likely outlive us and […]

This Is A Generative Platform

Generative platforms, while often being not as tailored to the user’s needs as closed platforms, allow users to modulate it in any way they see fit. WordPress is an excellent example of how open-ended platforms function. There’s a reason why UOW recommends that students use it for their blogs (including this one). While it may […]

CoronArt: The Social Distancing Game

Since my individual pitch, I have continued playtesting my game, CoronArt, with my sister, who lives eight hours away. I designed CoronArt around the theory that as the pandemic and social distancing continued, cabin fever would become more of an issue. I intended for CoronArt to be a game for people who are currently social distancing and […]

Beta Peer Review And Feedback

When finding blog posts to comment on, I selected Betas that didn’t have any feedback yet. The goal in this was to provide students with feedback as quickly as possible, in case they hadn’t received much this semester. In doing so, I stumbled upon three digital artefacts that resonated with me, and that I really […]

Content Control, Fair Use and Article 17

It’s difficult these days to retain audiences attention. Naturally, this means that industry conglomerates such as Disney, Viacom and Sony are desperately going to want to protect the content they own and control online. And they’re especially going to want to protect their content from aggregators such as YouTube, Spotify and Facebook, who have control […]

Are Video Games Becoming More Diverse? (Part 2: BAME And Disability Communities)

Video games allow players to walk a mile in the shoes of somebody who has lived a completely different life to them. With this comes the chance to create more diverse and inclusive media. So how does the gaming industry represent these minorities? And is it going to get better or worse in the future? […]

Cards Against Humanity, But For Alex Jones

For my group project with Julia Farrington, Julia Belikova and Anthea Tomaras, we have decided to create and A+B style party game titled “That’s Whack!”, influenced by the card game “Cards Against Humanity”. I’ve had difficulty being able to communicate with my group members entirely online. And so, by the time I had finally been […]