MUNDUSNOVUS: Mei 2013

Jumat, 24 Mei 2013

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i love you mr. ironic

"Welcome to the real world", she said to me
Condescendingly
Take a seat
Take your life
Plot it out in black and white
Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I'd like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve

They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
That something's better
On the other side

I wanna run through the halls of my high school
I wanna scream at the
Top of my lungs
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world
just a lie you've got to rise above

So the good boys and girls take the so called right track
Faded white hats
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they can't find the answers
And all of our parents
They're getting older
I wonder if they've wished for anything better
While in their memories
Tiny tragedies

I am invincible
As long as I'm alive

I just can't wait til my 10 year reunion
I'm gonna bust down the double doors
And when I stand on these tables before you
You will know what all this time was for

Rabu, 08 Mei 2013

PARADIS PERDUS

”We have no idea yet how people ‘read’ video games, what meanings they make from them. Still less do we know how people will ‘read’ them in the future.” - James Paul Gee

“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.” ― Marcel Proust

Preparing for entry to another virtual world

A few weeks ago, I used a computer game primarily as a stimulus for creative writing. I’m becoming increasingly interested in using story-led – predominantly ‘indie’ – video games that allow us to participate in and ‘inhabit’ narratives that we might not encounter in other genres, or more commercial games. I introduced you to another game, ParadisPerdus (english translated: ‘Lost Paradises’).

The game designer, Sergey Mohov, describes the game on his blog:

‘The game is about not belonging. You are the bad guy, you are killing everything you touch. The world you are in is beautiful and green, but the moment you get into it, you start infecting everything, and the world starts decaying, until it eventually ceases to exist. You can choose to exit the world, and then it will heal itself, but then you don’t get to enjoy it of course, because you’re not there any more.’

GAME PLAY

‘Reading’ the game’s opening screen, including the portal

i take control of the game. The player begins the game stood in front of the above screen. I posed the question: ‘So, where am I?’

‘somewhere green’

’A dark, evil world’

’Somewhere like Proteus’

‘Various ‘lands’

‘wonderland’

’futureland’

‘diamondland’

‘Somewhere habitable – you can hear a bird’

‘a maths land – everything is made of shapes’.

*Entering the portal, i was transported to a new world, through a cave.*

Exploring the world.

‘tranquil’, ‘serene’, ‘magical’, ‘peaceful’, ‘non-active’.

you are like a walking disease’,

‘it doesn’t want you to walk back’,

‘You’re destroying the Earth’

Discolouration of the virtual landscape following exploration, giving clues to the game’s meaning.

‘Humanity – it’s the most destructive thing on the planet.’

‘Whatever we touch falls apart.’

‘Yeah, global warming!.. The environment… Petrol!’

‘It’s trying to say ‘Don’t go back in life. Keep moving on, from the past…’

Analyzes

‘The only true journey wouldn’t be to go towards new landscapes, but to have different eyes.’ – Marcel Proust

This prompted further discussion, centred around the meaning of the quote: ‘It means that you need to look at things in different ways’, ‘Or maybe it means looking at things from other people’s points of view – through their eyes’. This continued into a short discussion about metaphor, which linked nicely to the symbolic and metaphorical nature of the game.

‘some games make you want to go out and do something in the real world’ and ‘games can make you look at something in a different way’.