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[PATV] Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - Extra Credits Season 2, Ep. 21: The Role of the Player

DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
edited September 2012 in The Penny Arcade Hub

image[PATV] Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - Extra Credits Season 2, Ep. 21: The Role of the Player

This week, we get into a little bit of video game theory, discussing the creative contribution of the player to a game.

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  • mblairmblair Registered User regular
    Perhaps game developers could not only look at the role of a storyteller but the role of a teacher as well. After all, there are anthropologists and historians out there who believe that stories and myths were tools to educate the next generation before writing became popular. A good teacher will utilize visual aids, established facts and traditions, and new ideas to elicit emotions from their students (in this case the very specific emotion of wanting to learn). It just seems like a more modern example that helps gaming separate itself from other passive media.

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