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Heading quotes are from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Websites consulted for this article: www.ilovebees.com http://www.ilovebees.blogspot.com http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/I_love_bees http://www.42entertainment.com/bees.html http://www.argn.com/ http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65365 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees http://www.thebruce.net/ilovebees.asp http://mitchrukat.com/i-love-bees/ http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/I-Love-Bees http://theunshaven.rooms.cwal.net/Hyperfiction/ I%20Love%20Bees%20-%20Analysis.htm http://ilb.extrasonic.com/index.php/Main_Page http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/rt/ printerFriendly/2484/2199 Heartfelt thanks to my Research Assistant, Phoebe Elefante, for her tireless efforts in helping to piece together the puzzle of ilovebees. Xbox Logo - (Microsoft) Honey rabbit hole - Elan Lee Countdown - Elan Lee Bees - trinketization (http://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/dobee-do-bee-do/) ILB Screenshot - 42 Entertainment/I Love Bees website (http://ilovebees.com/links.html) Dana’s Blog Screenshot - 42 Entertainment/Dana’s Blog (http://ilovebees.blogspot.com/) Text Close-Up - Same (http://ilovebees.blogspot.com/2004/10/ natural-enemies.html) Halo 2 Still - Free Webs (http://www.freewebs.com/get-yo-info/ games.htm) Alice Illustration - Poetry.net (http://www.poets.net/2008/09/ chapter-xii-alices-adventures-in.html)) 252
Resident Evil 4: The Mercenaries Mini-Game Stone Librande Trapped in a Castle I’m cornered on the upper floor of an ancient castle and I can hear the enemy troops searching for me below. I don’t move. I try not to breathe. My heart is pounding so loudly that I’m afraid it will betray my location. I remain perfectly still while I wait for the rescue helicopter to touch down on the roof and save me from this nightmare. A long minute passes. Finally, I hear the helicopter’s rhythmic blades overhead. I’m exhausted, but euphoric. I feel like I’ve crossed the finish line after sprinting a mile, but I have not even moved a muscle. Now, confident that my mission has been successfully completed, I relax, let out a deep sigh…and drop my Gamecube controller to the ground. Abruptly, I’m back in my living room standing 3 feet away from the television screen. I had been so deeply immersed in my game of Resident Evil 4 that my body was convinced it had been trapped in that castle. I can still hear my heart racing and feel the adrenaline flowing through my veins. Then it occurs to me. I had just experienced one of the most immersive, suspenseful and physical videogame moments of my life and I had been doing absolutely nothing for a full minute. I didn’t pull a trigger, move a joystick or push a single button. I had been standing perfectly still staring at an empty stairwell on a television screen and watching a clock countdown from 1:00 to 0:00. How could doing nothing be so exciting? To answer that question, I decided to examine Resident Evil 4 more thoroughly. I had been playing The Mercenaries portion of the game, which is only a small subset of the full game, so I thought it would be easy to break down the game mechanics. I began by mapping out the reward moments and the gameplay arcs, but I soon realized that the answer could not be found by studying only that one game. To get the full picture I needed to factor in all the games of The Mercenaries that I had played that night (about 30 of them), as well as the previous two weeks of gaming sessions (probably more than 300 games in total). The Mercenaries Mini-Game Resident Evil 4 was originally released for Nintendo’s Gamecube console by Capcom in January 2005. It quickly became one of the most 253
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Table of Contents Thank You. Well P
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Introduction Well Played 2.0 More P
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Cloudmaker Days: A Memoir of the A.
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that curtain was. This decision was
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experience. The ambivalence I felt
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storytelling where the topic is act
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the level of interactive engagement
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he wants the honor and glory for hi
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cinematics are units that go beyond
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differs from the first checkpoint).
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oom that you just saw in the vision
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Figure 10. Screenshot of the Castle
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fight, the space is large enough th
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scenes have more of a pounding elem
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going to have a successful ending (
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Interestingly, it doesn’t rewind
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note, I actually let myself get kil
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an attempt to inject it into gamepl
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Team XBox. Prince of Persia: Sands
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Gray discs require two adjacent bre
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my own music,[72] or more often, I
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allows five discs before a new row
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Chain Factor functioned as the “t
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I think, what well-designed virtual
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The genius of this system is that t
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haunting (and haunted) games I’ve
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Compared to “Sabre Wulf” and
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altitude) depending on the moment o
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Aside from that thread that explora
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would make anyone feel eager to pla
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learn on how to jump and take the o
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DREW DAVIDSON et al. (2008). Beyond
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her picture. When opening the locke
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The story advances with the explora
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Favorite moments Nothing would stop
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than yourself. Your character is re
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on presence, flow, and learning. Ho
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oach did not serve as a distraction
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game. However, some players felt pr
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sugary sweets from the picnic blank
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Findin
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30 square kilometers around the Che
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Deus Ex and System Shock to set the
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the dreams,” muses this nameless
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fails to realize that the Zone is n
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leak, empty land-scape highlights t
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The storyline, characters, and even
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enough. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warf
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developers utilize environmental es
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The title of the novel is a referen
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And yet the same sun, the same moon
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(www.perimeterpartners.com), Bill H
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Actraiser Andy Jih While many other
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simple to dive into: run left and r
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the only task left is to go to the
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have ended the game simply with an
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For an adventure game to succeed, i
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cinematic, Manny despairs of his lo
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normal day-to-day life to reach new
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weren’t completed due to budget a
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mechanic Elementals that look like
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gameplay mechanics in Fallout 3. Th
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with moral dilemmas is done with th
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contained vignette will also make m
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One of the most discussed Quests in
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the grove to help the Wasteland whi
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weapons lost will change playing st
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nonexistent, and few gamers I talk
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Cyan is notorious for baffling play
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Figure 2: The Cleft in the desert,
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“writing” Ages, housed in “li
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ook, that book appears in your Relt
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visits to solve, each player needs
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them prideful and greedy. The impli
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midst and walking down the path. If
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Figure 17: Decoding the door in Ede
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As mentioned earlier, central to Ur
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Immersive Game Design: Indigo Proph
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compartmentalizes all of the conten
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immediate connection between player
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initiating a similar game-ending ev
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interactions have even greater sign
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was trying to concentrate on inputt
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Lions & Jackals: The Politics of Fa
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Banga, meaning “the all-powerful
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ealization of what he turned into.
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Maybe 80% of our players are just l
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Jeffries, L.B. “Far Cry 2: The He
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Looking beyond the moments, it is i
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prowess. There is some level of apt
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solid short-term goal, much like fi
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time or exploring the same game lev
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and seamless; the player is whisked
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Rasmus: I have an absolute love for
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feeling that there is something int
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