Networked Participation, Collective Intelligence and the Success of #TeamTrees

The modern audience has changed drastically with the introduction of digital content. Now able to converse with each other online, audiences have gained the power to affect the success of online projects, creating a collective intelligence. Team Trees is a strong example of how effective a distributed network can perform in sharing information. As a […]

What’s Next for Virtual Reality Gaming?

The evolution of virtual reality gaming has never been a smooth ride. Progress and popularity in the industry have been coming in fits and stops since the late 1980s. And depending on who you ask, is a medium that is dead in the water, or just getting started. With the recent successes of “Half-Life: Alyx”, “Trover […]

DA Pitch Feedback

The pitches that I was assigned were all completely different from one another; each is looking at various topics and using different platforms and types of media. When writing feedback, I attempted to be encouraging while providing constructive criticism and used these three Digital Artefacts to consider how I could improve my own. Comment #1: […]

Loss and the Non-Industrial Paradigm

When Tim Buckley uploaded the latest issue of his webcomic “Ctrl+Alt+Del” in 2008, there was no way that he could have predicted that over a decade later, people would still be remaking, remixing and parodying the strip. The version of Loss pictured above is a meme that I created and took less than 5 minutes […]

How Will the Coronavirus Impact the Gaming Industry?

In late December of 2019, a case of pneumonia with an unknown cause in Wuhan was reported to the World Health Organisation, which was soon discovered to be the Coronavirus. Since then, COVID-19 has spread to over 200 countries and become a global pandemic. As a result, the Coronavirus has harmed nearly every industry which isn’t considered essential, […]

Toxic workplaces and “crunch culture” in the video game industry

Late into the year of 2004, a blog was posted to LiveJournal titled EA: The Human Story. Written by Erin Hoffman, the post detailed the workplace culture her husband Leander Hasty experienced at Electronic Arts. Namely, it’s gruelling work hours (up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week) and lack of overtime pay, compensation […]

YouTube and the Active Audience

The creation of the internet rapidly changed the way that audiences view and interact with their media, enabling viewers to start a conversation about the content, rather than just passively consuming it. This is especially prominent with content explicitly made for the internet, allowing for viewers to even help shape the content created. In 2018, […]

Tabletop Games Vs. My Social Anxiety

A little something about me; I’m a socially anxious introvert and interacting with people is my worst nightmare. Alien social interactions (such as playing card games I do not know of with people I’ve never met before) make me want to sink through the floor like Bayonetta during a game over. Fortunately for me, at […]

Digital Artefact – The Future of Video Games

So for my digital artefact this session, I have decided to write a blog about where video game culture and game development is heading in the future. The current goal is to upload a post about a specific game-related topic each Sunday. However, I’m keeping this goal relatively loose for now, until I get a […]

Nora’s Story: How Multimedia Compliments Journalism

In mid-October of 2017 news organisation, The Oregonian posted the first chapter of the five-part series; “The Loneliest Polar Bear”. Written and directed by Kale Williams and Dave Killen, the story documented the raising of the polar bear cub, Nora, at Columbus zoo, Ohio, up to her current life. The story significantly incorporated photo, video, interactivity and encouraged social […]