{"id":827,"date":"2020-05-04T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/?p=827"},"modified":"2020-05-04T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:01:37","slug":"reflection-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/2020\/05\/04\/reflection-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading over my posts again, I found that I could separate them into two categories: posts that compare two works to each other and posts that discuss the use of medium in one work. In posts of the former category, I always ended up examining the relationship between the player and either the player character or the game mechanics. My first post<\/a> is the most obvious example of this, as it focuses on whether the player of that day’s games play as the character or as themselves. Similarly, my second<\/a> and fourth<\/a> posts examine how the game guides the player (or maybe how the player guides the game) through its narrative possibilities. I think I focused so much on the role of the player in these posts because it serves as both a common ground and a narrative split between games. Every game has a player, after all, but every game will treat them differently.<\/p>\n

The posts I wrote about a single game were not so player-centric. Instead, they were about how games used techniques built into their medium and to what extent they worked. For example, my third post<\/a> discussed signal degradation, or technological errors with visual effects, and why it’s used intentionally in horror games when it would be a detriment to any other genre. I didn’t bring up any technique in particular in my fifth post<\/a>, but I did mention how the creators of the relevant game did their best to simulate a realistic stream-of-consciousness, and how the attempt was ultimately doomed to fall short due to the limitations of the medium.<\/p>\n

Overall, I was primarily interested in discussing player-game relationships and the way games present themselves to us. I was a little surprised to discover that I had a few topics I naturally gravitated towards, since before I thought I was just writing whatever came to my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading over my posts again, I found that I could separate them into two categories: posts that compare two works to each other and posts that discuss the use of medium in one work. In posts of the former category, I always ended up examining the relationship between the player and either the player character …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflective-post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}