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Post # 1: Shifts in Our Understanding of Computer Games

After our readings from Bogost and Schell this semester, how has your understanding of computer games shifted? 

 Write a blog post that reflects on your own experience with games before this course, and how things like procedural rhetoric and the Elemental Tetrad have shifted that (if at all). 

 Feel free to bring in, discuss, and analyze any specific examples from the texts and/or the games we’ve played to emphasize this.

 As a reminder, when assessing your work on this post, I'll be considering the following questions:

  • Does this post contain at least 300-500 words?
  • Does this post respond to all questions/elements of the prompt?
  • Does this post bring in examples (from the writer’s own experiences, outside sources, and/or games)?

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