CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Ian Hacking, Game Players
8 Nov 2016
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CCT109 - Lecture 8
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
1:06 PM
Identity Formation and Enactment in Video Games (Gaming & Identity)
Guest Speaker: Chris Hugelmann
Acronyms/Terminology
• LARPing = Live Action Role Playing
• RPG - Role Playing Game
• MMPORG = Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
• D&D = Dungeons & Dragon
• VR = Virtual Reality
What is a game?
• Games are anything that involve or rely on "world-building activities"
• Games consist of a broader sense than video games
Social Spaces for Performances
• [gameworlds challenge] many of our traditional notions of play and society
• Video games allow you to perform as whatever identity you'd like to have
• Ex. Overwatch & TERA
Social Spaces for Interaction
• People can impact the way they interact
• Second life allows more freedom of expression
• Shared identities
o Same collection of people in one group
• "Interaction and exchange through social practices, such as performance, narrative,
embodiment, and identity construction."
• Video games emulate the real world
Constraints
• Limited by specific parts of the game
o Skyrim
• Many character modifications and changes allowed
• Create your own play style
o Pokémon
• Clothing and gender modifications
• "Rules liit atios…, are shared all plaers…, are fied…, [ad] are idig"
• Ian Hacking
o Systems are put in place that allow for certain ways of being
o "Making people up"
o "Were there any perverts before the latter part of the nineteenth century?"
• The way that we create these types of people are through constraints
• Medical field created the idea of perversion; therefore, creating a category for
those kinds of people to fit in
o "Were there cheaters in video games before the category of "cheater/hacker" were
created?
• Now you can be branded as a cheater/hacker in a game and be given a label
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