Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment. Look here — my right hand has no index finger. Look here — through this gash in my cape you can see on my stomach a crimson tattoo. It is the second Read More
Adapting or recreating a form of media within a game space is a common way of finding new ways of playing that game, one such example is implementing the Hunger Games style of player vs player in the Minecraft game world. This merging of different forms of media comes with some predefined set of rules Read More
The colors in this mysterious force field are so bright, they’re almost blinding. And they seem to be in layers. But the strangest thing is that nothing shows up on the radar screen. What could that mean? Is it possible to travel through this mysterious force field or will you crash and be destroyed? And Read More
Going into this new project, I’m excited about a number of things: having a chance to flex my creative and critical thinking skills, to dip my feet into the familiar worlds of ideological frameworks and implicit rules of play, and to undoubtedly have my mind blown by the most rudimentary of Minecraft mechanics that no Read More
I’m no stranger to The Hunger Games, let alone Hungercraft. I’ve been playing it on and off since I first started playing Minecraft last semester. It’s one of the things that interested me about Minecraft even before I started playing the game myself; I’m not sure if it’s my obsession with the Hunger Games or Read More
In our examination of Minecraft’s Hunger Games genre we have given much attention to what is included and not included in the genre. We have sought out the apparent status quo of the genre, and paid special attention to other features that are uncommon, any features which give distinctive change to the genre, that the problems in the concept of Read More
Weeknote 1: Since we are in an early phase of our endeavor, I want to work on ideas, brainstorming on the essence. Introductive Parenthesis: Survival games are relying on empathy and identification. It is most often ‘I’ that must survive. In Minecraft especially ‘I’ want to survive and collect resource in order to be able to explore, Read More
In this early stage of the project, before we have even concluded our survey of Hunger Games sub-genres and implementations, it has already become apparent that the label “Hunger Games” as applied to types of Minecraft play scenarios is quite problematic. “Pure” Hunger Games implementations in Minecraft involve a themed arena, entry tubes/elevators, a cornucopia Read More
The “Hunger Games”, thematically based on the book and movie franchises of the same name, has emerged as a kind of competitive, PvP, arena-style Minecraft mini-game, played on purpose-built maps created by players. Examples of the genre can be found all over YouTube, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4dhIMVtPVE Hunger Games maps enforce the game mechanics through some combination Read More