Women as Video Game Characters; DA Final Report

The journey over the last few months with this DA has been filled with hiccups and F**k-ups. The first month of streaming was great. I had created a stream schedule for the pitch video and managed to stick to it flawlessly. In week 6 my weekly schedule changed because of the gym, week 7 I

Analytical Framework: Explained

So in my previous post I confessed to not putting a whole lot of effort into discussing my analytical framework, so I’m hoping to remedy that today. My analytical framework since day one has been a combination of Agency, Representation, and Presentation. Agency can be difficult to describe. In the week 11 lecture on Agency,

She’s learnin’

I watched Pride and Prejudice yesterday, and an episode of Bridgeton on Netflix today, so my writing is going to sound pompous and eccentric. I will not apologise for this. So after creating and fine tuning DAs for the last year and a half, you would think that I might have some idea of what

215 Beta; How’s The Streaming Going?

Progress Report  Following the Pitch, my DA was going well, I followed my stream Schedule and was applying my analytical framework to the games I was playing. In week 6, my schedule shifted slightly due to a change in routine. Week 7 I had my wisdom teeth removed, I couldn’t speak, my face was swollen,

Assassin’s Creed is Amazing

Assassin’s Creed II (AC2) is a 2009 action-adventure video game by Ubisoft that takes place in renaissance Italy in the late 15th Century. It follows an assassin by the name of Ezio who spends the first half of the game getting revenge for his family’s betrayal and murder, then learns that the people responsible are

Look, I think I’m good at giving Feedback…Probably

After examining three pitches for bcm215 and providing feedback, I have realised that when pressed to mark multiple assignments in a short time, it is easiest to create Pitches that explicitly include all the required concepts in a clear and succinct way, because if parts of the criteria are missing, or not obvious, you will

Representation, Presentation, and Agency of Female Video Game Characters

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Loot Crates, Micro-Transactions, and ‘Pay-To-Play’; Why Battlefront II Was Initially Unsuccessful.

Ever since the invention of coin-operated machines like Pinball and Pachinko, people have had moral panics regarding gambling mechanics in games, with instances such as the mayor of New York City in 1942 that famously outlawed pinball machines and was photographed seizing and smashing these machines. In the modern era, there have been similar concerns

Oni: Rise of the ‘Girl Gamer’

Oni, known as “bungie’s forgotten game“, is a third-person action video game developed by Bungie West, a division of Bungie known for the Destiny series. Oni was released on PC and PS2 in January 2001 in a time where the video game industry was almost entirely male dominated, from the production, marketing, purchasing and playing of