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doing it myself

Posted by Laura Feb 11, 2012 Posted in academia
I had a very unexpected surprise this morning; I opened up the University’s VLE to find my Game Studies assignment had been graded. The assignment was to create a game that lasted no more than 60 seconds using an ASCII theme, and I agonised for weeks over what I was going to do. In fact, I agonised for so long that by the time I came around to finally making it I was thoroughly miserable and fed up with myself, and so produced what I assumed was pretty sub-par work (it should be noted that my idea of “sub-par” is apparently everyone else’s idea of “roaring success”). I got a 91 which is the highest grade...

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I want to study games because of reasons

Posted by Laura Dec 06, 2011 Posted in academia
I want to study games because of reasons The long silence has not been laziness or forgetfulness. On the contrary I’ve been working (reasonably) hard and playing a lot of games and considering writing about them on Press Triangle. I don’t work as hard as I should, or as hard as I want to, but hopefully once I gain a sense of direction I’ll find the motivation which powered me through my A Levels (and nearly drove me mad). Until then, there’s a lot of ruminating and reading to be done. Over the weekend I visited one of my best friends to hang out, eat food, watch fun TV shows and walk along the Dawlish coast in memory of my late-Grandmother. He’s currently working on a PhD...

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