Tempus Tommy

A Dane living in The Netherlands

Tuesday, June 01, 2004  

Ok, acting out a game real-life in the real world has been seen before. Role-playing games were taken off the table through the game system LARP. Ludo has been acted out, chess, checkers etc.
And now...PAC-MAN!!!! These people have created a city kit, so everybody can play it. The whole idea in Pacmanhattan is based on mobil phones, since each player (Pac-man and ghosts) are controlled by controllers standing outside the playfield - 10 people in total.
I wonder how they manage to do the famous pieces of melody in the game...maybe the Pac-Man should take a huge 80'ies boom box on his shoulder? And I wonder how it feels to die (actually be eaten by a ghost) in a game like this?
- and who wouldn't like to be Mrs. Pac-Man?
- and how about this version of the Pac-Man game...couldn't that be taken into the streets (a park might be safer though)?
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Thinking about watching the tape I recently got from Lisbeth - 4 hours of Danish Crown prince wedding!!!! That must be an afternoon well wasted :)
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archives:

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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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