The Postdoc Day IMMERSe event at U Waterloo last week gave me a chance to present in front of and listen to presentations from games scholars doing work all over the network’s six schools. As I mentioned in my last weeknote, the meeting was not something I was originally meant to present at–I was sent Read More
In one of her later essays, Eve Sedgwick (2012) muses ‘sometimes I think the books that affect us most are… the books we know about – from their titles, from reading reviews, or hearing people talk about them – but haven’t, over a period of time, actually read’ (123). Unread, these books can remain ‘objects Read More
As part of the IMMERSe research I’m currently involved in, our team has been spending time lately examining mods for the Bethesda Elder Scrolls game Skyrim. Mods are (generally) user generated content for commercially produced and distributed games, and can alter anything from the realism of how light reflects off of surfaces in the game Read More
This is Lydia. Lydia is a character in the digital fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Fictionally, Lydia is a Housecarl, someone sworn to serve and protect the Thane, an honorary title granted by the reigning lord to a person of importance in a city or Hold. She is one of many followers Read More