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Game Studies - Creative Player Actions in FPS Online Video Games: Playing Counter-Strike

Analysis of creative player input in conter-strike communities..

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tagged counter_strike first_person_shooter mod_culture modding video_games by mhighlan ...on 13-DEC-05

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Am I Mod or Not? - An analysis of First Person Shooter modification culture.

David Nieborg explores the history of mod culture in computer games in this essay. Most of his analysis is based on Jenkins' theories of fandom and participatory fan culture. There is a short section on how manchinima fits into the larger culture of modifing first person shooter games.

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tagged fans first_person_shooter games machinima mods video_games by mhighlan ...on 13-DEC-05

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First person : new media as story, performance, and game / edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan ; designed by Michael Crumpton.

reading it now..

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tagged first_person_shooter storytelling video_games by mhighlan ...on 22-NOV-05

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Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels: Books: Shanna Compton

This is an amazon link, the book wasn't in the catalog...Looks like a good colletion of essays based on person experiences in gaming...

tagged first_person_shooter narratology personal_experience street_fighter video_game_theory video_games by mhighlan ...and 2 other people ...on 07-NOV-05