Vielen dank fuer dieses CFP. Aber, dieses Text ist zu schwerig fuer mein sehr wenig Deutsch. Bitte, schreiben Sie auch eine Kurzfaessung auf Englisch.

Hope you’re well mate. Excuse my appalling German – just a case in point as to why you should put some stuff in English for idiots like me

Cheers

welcome to the board! (I feel like I have been waiting for an opportunity to say something like that all the time)

In terms of dramatization, I guess the hero’s journey has really become standard practice. Vogler’s writer’s guide (it’s even called “writer’s journey”, right?) speaks volumes about this development. It would be a useful reference, of course. For instance, the game design crowd present at the event knew all about the hero’s journey and I did not really tell them anything new. The part on the violent nature of mythological narratives was more interesting to them, but, as is ever so often the case:), it suffered from time constraints. However, I chose Wessely because he combines mythological approaches to analyze films and games in his work. In fact, I referred to him practically verbatim…

Which is probably due to the fact that I did not write a paper for the presentation, but instead to a certain degree made it up going along. Therefore, it will not be made public in written form. But – as I mentioned already, I am looking forward to the video, which will soon be available via Videospielkultur. Your German is excellent anyway, so there you go…soon!

Re: Playing-while-presenting – Rudolf was the only one present who had played “Prey” before, and he had to leave early. So there was only me left. I had no choice. I had to move quickly. (I am getting dramatic.) Will do better next time!

Keep “butting” in!

this playing-while-presenting problem isn’t new to me either. i’ve started using members of the audience (carefully chosen )

This is interesting. I have seen the connection myself and there’s some work done in game studies but there is a lot of scope for development. Have you looked at Vogler as well?

Lastly, is your paper available to the public?

All best.

Yours gamingly …

@Colloidal: Thanks & welcome (unacquaintedly? – unidentifiedly!)!

Your question is a tricky one. The German “jein” is a classic and it’s hard to find an equivalent in English. “Yeno” and “Suno”(sure+no) both sound like cheap and ugly Japanese cars. So one probably has to give it to Oasis using their catch phrase “definitely maybe”.

Gosh I should stop thinking about this stuff.

Have a nice weekend.

As to an answer to your questions, I am looking for an English equivalent to “jein”: “Yo” is already defined, but “nes” also comes to mind. Any other suggestions?

I really enjoyed the video – their behavior is indeed highly questionable!