Comments on: Dreams of Digital Death: Winstates and narrative limitations http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/01/31/dreams-of-digital-death-winstates-and-narrative-limitations/ We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:21:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Another Puzzling Story » CultureRamp http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/01/31/dreams-of-digital-death-winstates-and-narrative-limitations/#comment-20534 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:11:07 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=14269#comment-20534 […] represent a kind of Platonic ideal toward which games have been inevitably marching. Writing at The Society Pages, Sarah Wanenchak suggests […]

]]> By: Friday Roundup: February 8, 2013 » The Editors' Desk http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/01/31/dreams-of-digital-death-winstates-and-narrative-limitations/#comment-19942 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:49:21 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=14269#comment-19942 […] to take (from salmonella to drone attacks), the low-tech quantified life, developing a game about unnoticed expiration, and how feelings and Facebook are never […]

]]> By: Dim http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/01/31/dreams-of-digital-death-winstates-and-narrative-limitations/#comment-19450 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:22:10 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=14269#comment-19450 The assumption that the winstate basis is unique to games, and not present in our daily analogue lives is troublesome to me. Lets look at EVE online for a moment: This is a game with only as much of a winstate as you’re able to generate for yourself, much akin to life. Eve isn’t alone in this though, EVE is just one of the best examples of a sandbox game that highlight our personal generation of winstates. Whenever you lay out a goal you have just defined a winstate, same goes for wanting anything.

There’s definitely this expectation that winstates will have been defined for you in a game, but I think it is disingenuous to say that this is a property of gaming as a medium. This is a product of a narrow viewpoint.

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