Tempus Tommy

A Dane living in The Netherlands

Saturday, May 17, 2003  

Hmmmm....Majesco is launching a conspiracy-based game this year: Black9. It's not an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) as such, but it does deal with the same theme.

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Richard and I went to see The Matrix: Reloaded yesterday.
Though there was less story and more effects, I actually liked it...maybe because of the extra existentialistic babbling (you actually have to concentrate a bit to follow the thread). Try an check out the philosophy-section at the site, where you can read articles like Plato's Cave And The Matrix and Wake Up! - Gnosticism and Buddhism in The Matrix
And for once, I was awed by the effects...the famous highway scene left me sitting with my mouth wide open (true!).

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Talking about The Matrix and ARG - The Matrix has kind of an online game here. In the Flash version simply click on the little square at the top right, that makes the "Flash Version" window say INPUT CODE...then type in your code. (spoiler: One code is "redpill" and that will take you here).
It doesn't look like it's having a very deep structure, but let's see what happens...
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archives:

Trying to make the central heating work again.

links:

game-research.com

gamasutra.com

Susana Tosca (My former advisor)

dutch in dk (A blog: twin blogger - mirrorwise)

Klastrup's Cataclysms (my friend)

Bygballe's blog (my friend)

Louise's thoughts (my friend)

Frank Schaap (a Dutch researcher working in the same area as I)

Nick Yee's Hub (an Online Study in MMORPG)

books on my desk:

Michael Argyle:
"The Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior"

Danii Elkonin:
Legens Psykologi (The Psychology of Play)

Erving Goffman:
"The presentation of Self in Everday Life"

Erving Goffman:
"Behavior in Public Places"

Erving Goffman:
"Frame Analysis"

Lisbeth Klastrup:
"Towards a Poetics of a Virtual World" (not yet in press)

Edward Hall:
"The Hidden Dimension"

update Feb. 23

mail:

tommyblogger@hotmail.com

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