It will be no surprise to my friends that I am what many would call a “gamer.” Even readers of this blog should not be terribly surprised by this point. What I wanted to talk about today is not a particular game, but rather the way that gamers approach games. I have been considering it a bit recently, and thought my conclusions were a bit interesting. Rather than drawing direct personality-related conclusions, however, I will simply list the sorts of approaches I see people taking (myself included) to games. Note that these responses are not mutually exclusive, nor are they always adopted wholeheartedly; some people may agree with certain parts of a description and despise the others. Well, on to the descriptions! Read more…
Last week, I became an early adopter of the Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming system. I have already written about that, but today wanted to write a bit about being an early adopter. Read more…
My first post with Evangelical Outpost is up! Go check it out. It’s about Jonathan’s Card.
It is probably no secret that I am a player of video games. I don’t think there is any inherent dissonance between being a thinker, theologian and philosopher and being a gamer. Some may be quick to point out that much of the gaming community exists in a bubble filled with insults and poor social skills or that the average gamer may not be of the sort who sits down and reads Aristotle or some other book for fun. In fact, the stereotype of ‘the gamer’ is probably not the sort of person who would write poetry or over two hundred blog posts without focusing in on video games. Read more…
I had been a fan of Photo Fight long before I entered it myself. In fact, when I first found it, I can recall thinking “Wow, this is a really cool idea. It’s a shame I am not a photographer.” I had never spent time taking photos or considering how shots are laid out, except perhaps as an exercise in understanding someone else’s work. Read more…
