Digital Literature Topic: Play and Game Designs in Digital Literature 2

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Digital Literature TopicPlay and Game Designs
in Digital Literature (2)

• _at_Shuen-shing LeeUnless specified otherwise,
  texts quoted in the lectureare mostly taken from
  Shuen-shing Lees Explorations of Ergodic
  Literature (dichtung-digital 2002) and Code at
  Work, Text at Play (Bookman 2004).

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Games of Meditative Immersion

• Yellowlees Douglas and Andrew Hargadon's (2000)
  "The Pleasure Principle Immersion, Engagement,
  Flow"The pleasures of immersion stem from our
  being completely absorbed within the ebb and flow
  of a familiar narrative schema. The pleasures of
  engagement tend to come from our ability to
  recognize a work's overturning or conjoining
  conflicting schemas from a perspective outside
  the text, our perspective removed from any single
  schema. Our enjoyment in engagement lies in our
  ability to call upon a range of schemas,
  grappling with an awareness of text, convention,
  even of secondary criticism and whatever guesses
  we might venture in the direction of authorial
  intention.

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Games of Meditative Immersion

• Crimson Room(Flash game)
• (see list-games.htm dd)

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Games of Meditative Immersion

• A comparison
• Sherlock Holmes (??????)(reading)
• Clues (lt??gt )(Clues)(reading playing
  gaming)
• (see list.htm)

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Games of Meditative Immersion

• In terms of representation, the narration of
  Clues is non-storytelling wrapped up in the
  form of detective storytelling.
• Regarding simulation, the gaming ends, either
  winning or losing, sustain the philosophical vein
  of ambiguity pervading the whole text.
• The detective non-story and the blurred gaming
  goal seem to pose a challenge to their respective
  convention but with little impact. But on the
  contrary, the convergence of the two twists, or
  the interlaced poetics of representation and
  simulation, gives birth to a cybertext of
  meditative immersion, a new species transcending
  the type of immersion presumed in popular
  culture.