Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
This paper lays out a unified framework of the ergodic animage, the rule-based and interaction-driven part of visual representation in video games. It is the end product of a three-year research project conducted by the INTEGRAE team, and is divided into three parts. Part 1 contextualizes the research on graphics
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In this essay, we shall try to step back from a blinding cinema-centric approach in order to examine the impact such a framing has caused, to question its limitations, and to reflect on the interpretive communities that have relied on film (communities we are part of, due to our film
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This paper presents the research project of the INTEGRAE team. It aims to unravel the links between graphical technologies and innovation in the games industry and in gamer culture by focusing on a specific historical corpus: the transition from 2D to 3D graphics in the 1990s. This transition is of
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Technological innovation in the video games industry is a rich area of research that has barely been explored as of yet. It is usually taken for granted in game historiography that “[g]ame graphics were, and to a large extent still are, the main criteria by which advancing video game technology
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This paper provides a critical overview of the notion of genre in game studies and in the video game industry, and establishes that genre is rooted not in game mechanics, but in game aesthetics; that is, play-experiences that share a phenomenological and pragmatic quality, regardless of their technical implementation.
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Interactive cinema has left an impressive corpus seemingly forgotten. In this research, we call attention to the significant historical heritage of FMV (full-motion video) games. Beside its cinematographic appeal, we study its ergodic dimension, leading to our concepts of figures of interactivity and actional modalities.
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This paper studies the Guitar Hero video game as a simulation. This is done by examining the game controller and the visual interface, and how they work to accurately simulate the act of playing the guitar.
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