Week VII - Overview

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.

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."

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.