Game Progression: An Analogy

Game Progression, Player Growth and (Im)Balance of Powers

I’ve been working on a chapter of my thesis that attempts to relate game progression with increase in narrative tension. Since I like to prepare slides and visualize the subject matter, I come up with diagrammes. The slide below is a diagram about game progression, player growth and the impact severeness of player interactions. [...]

Update: PhD

It’s 100% official now: I’m a PhD student!
I spent the last week in Turkey to care about application issues. After I handed in all required legal documents, I was asked to choose an area of interest and an advisor. As you might already know, my area of interest is “Video games narrativity” and my advisor of [...]

Update: PhD

I made a quick research yesterday on the change in the bylaw at the EMU, my current university. It turns out that the change that has been made in regard to PhD rules will be in power starting with the new academic year in September 2009. In other words: pursuing two PhD’s simultaneously can be [...]

Update: PhD

Funny.
As you already know, I’m returning to my “old” PhD in Ankara. The application process is finished, I am already in talks with my advisor and my daily readings and writings are continuing. On the other hand, due to a change in the bylaw of the university I work for, my application for a PhD [...]

An Update on my PhD

I have been in talks with my advisor Beybin for the past few weeks. I have literally bombarded her with dozens of notes, snippets, articles, and slides. It will still take some time until we have fleshed out the exact way that I’ll be following in my thesis, but there are certain themes and arguments [...]