Recent content by RobPlumpton

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    Are you sick of fantasy-based role-playing games?

    If you think that sixty or so pages describing Bilbo Baggins's birthday party, and turgid prose that reads like a description of an ordnance survey map, equates to literary genius, then yes, Tolkien is a god damned genius.
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    Are you sick of fantasy-based role-playing games?

    Yeah, 'cos it's that easy!!!
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    113: Scriptoria

    I'm very late responding to this, but then I only joined up a few days ago. Good article! It will be interesting to see how specialised game writing becomes, given that interactivity is something unique and specific to games.
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    New Study Finds Violent Videogames Affect Teenagers Brains

    I feel inclined to question the validity of an experiment that measures responses to emotive stimuli within a controlled environment. I can't help but think that, were the subjects exposed to an actual bar brawl or an actual mugging, they'd respond as anybody else would. By the way, sorry...