Eunice Melara Being that 50% of the people who play video games are women and only 25% video game developers, are females, shocked me. This article made me think of all the different types of genres and story lines that can be used while developing video games, using the tool Twine.  Using Twine as a…

Twine is a tool in order to create video games but this is a different type of game. Twine games are mainly text interactive works that can sometimes be serious and appeals to a different audience. Personally I am a gamer so when trying out these games, I got bored very quickly. For me, a video…

  The issues that stood out prominently for myself was the article’s inclusion of gamergate. Which it had began early on stating in the reading, collaborating facts on the initiatives to gamergate’s fabricated existence, while attempting to tie in the correlation of twine bringing the alternative type of developer in gaming. I found it interesting…

The premise of the article that stood out to me most was the idea of the modern concept of what defines a game being expanded. During the Game Art vs. Art Game gallery tour we were all introduced to the game “That Dragon, Cancer”, and I feel as though it falls into a similar category…

Personally not a gamer. Have been surrounded by gamers. Read up on a lot of gamer opinions years ago and I don’t know why- I noticed that the article itself is skewed to a certain degree, but I really don’t feel like talking about that. I’m of the belief that all works of fiction come from…

I’ve played games similar to games of twine and personally, I like these games. They are simple and instead of agility, they’re more on thought. These games also target social issues like sexuality and identity which I’m totally on board with. These games are part entertaining and part educational. These games remind me of “Freaks…

This article about Twine by Laura Hudson was exceptional! Twine is something that I had never experienced before, it takes (in the best way possible) the fun out of games and immerses the player in a make believe world. When playing the game Howling Dogs: Room I felt totally in it for real. The super…

Twine is a tool that video game artists have used to produce work that is inaccessible to the majority of the video game playing public because it breaks conventions of traditional gameplay. Rather than being fun, winnable, linear, and coated with visual complexity, Twine games are text-based interactive works that reject the commercialized aesthetic of…

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } I have a negative view of mainstream “gamers”, based on previous experiences in my life, and this face creates a bias when reading articles like these. How silly and frivolous it is to have an argument about what is or is not a game. In essence, existence is…

What I found after reading the article and playing a couple of the games is how these games differ from normal video games. To me, video games are a way to escape the real world and live in a fantasy world for a bit where you get to solve problems and do things that aren’t…

I played one the games mentioned in the article called “Howling Dogs”. I didn’t finished the game but played enough to get the gist of it. The imagery the text tried to create was quite descriptive which lets you see the game in your way. Everyone one would have a different interpretation of the events…

Samuel Kramer A game is defined as a form of play or sport, usually competitive and following some set of rules, the outcome of which is decided by skill, luck or strength.  So when approaching these text based games we can see that,  although they do not seem like games to us in the traditional…