In Brief: The Sims
October 5, 2018
The Sims is always an interesting beast to tackle because it resists, or at least cannot be accurately captured by, short description. The game functions in some sense as a life simulator, wherein the player creates or selects a family, … Read more
Chronotope, I.E.
October 5, 2018
Chronotope, literally “time-space”, is a concept developed by Mikhael Bakhtin in “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel”. In essence, it is a concrete whole in which there is a particular and visible relationship between space and … Read more
Thoughts On: Bringing Commercial Games into the Classroom
October 5, 2018
This article out of the University of Alcala in Spain details an investigation into the use of video games in an educational context as part of a multimodal approach to education, in order to more actively engage with students and … Read more