During Week 7 I wrote a Source Analysis of E. Hall's 'The Silent Language'. I also started making notes for my work over the Easter break, in three main fields; Test Design, NPC Design and Level Design.
Saturday, March 27
Thursday, March 25
Week VII - Source Analysis IV
Players in Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning demonstrate distances in MMORPGs.During Week 7 I borrowed E. Hall's 'The Silent Language' from the University library. I completed reading the book over the course of the week, and the source analysis report I wrote as a result can be found here.
"E. Hall's 'The Silent Language’ is an interesting source describing the myriad aspects of culture. While the book is probably required reading for anthropologists, I at first struggled to find meaning within it as relating to games design. Nonetheless riveting, it was only as I approached chapter ten, ‘Space Speaks’, which discusses from a Western point of view how distance affects communication. Within a three-dimensional space such as our level, this is integral."
"E. Hall's 'The Silent Language’ is an interesting source describing the myriad aspects of culture. While the book is probably required reading for anthropologists, I at first struggled to find meaning within it as relating to games design. Nonetheless riveting, it was only as I approached chapter ten, ‘Space Speaks’, which discusses from a Western point of view how distance affects communication. Within a three-dimensional space such as our level, this is integral."
Sunday, March 21
Week VII - Personal Goals
During Week 7 the team again has no work to achieve, so I set myself a piece based on Phil's recommendation..
ii. Read and evaluate E. Hall's "The Silent Language" [1959].
I especially enjoy the perspective of authors writing before the advent of the internet, and hopefully this is no different.
ii. Read and evaluate E. Hall's "The Silent Language" [1959].
I especially enjoy the perspective of authors writing before the advent of the internet, and hopefully this is no different.
