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Applying theory to play - The Game Studies Musings of Merlin Seller MA Mst (PhD) Lecturer University of Edinburgh

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Dear Player: Alien Objects and Isolation
Dear Player: Alien Objects and Isolation

*Bip, bip, bip*. Better put that away – the Alien can hear your interface. In Alien: Isolation, an epic space-tragedy, you spend more time talking to your retro-engineered tools than other human beings. Stuck in space, you’re main enemy is technology.

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Materiality, RepresentationMerlin SellerAlien, Alien: Isolation, art games, critical play, history of computer games, lacan, thing theory, video game studies, video game theory
Dear Player: Hotline Miami and Low Res Death
Dear Player: Hotline Miami and Low Res Death

  I’m puking on the pavement beside my DeLorian. I’ve just killed. A lot. Of pixellated people. And I’m throwing up a lot of pixels after that last one in particular. I bashed in a homeless person’s face with his own baseball bat just because he was between me and my car - the narrowness of the alleyway was the only logic I paid attention to.

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MaterialityMerlin Seller80s retro gaming, art games, critical play, Drive, Hotline Miami, lacan, pixel, pixelation, video game studies, video game theory