ダニエルの冒険

Today we had another class of CS4067 and began defining ludology and narratology a little more. We started looking at the terms ludus and paidea. Rather than defining them, I’ll just direct you to this blog entry where they are defined more competently than I could explain.

I’ve been hearing both in and out of class that ludology and narratology are generally considered opposing theories. Likewise, ludologists and narratologists generally do not like each others’ ideas. It’s probably from a lack of reading experience, but myself and others in the class are having difficulty seeing why the ideas are said to be incompatible.
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Last week was the first week back at university and one of our modules, CS4067 Writing Games Analysis, requires that we keep a blog to help our writing skills. Also being an opportunity for me to keep writing, and keep reading, I’m happy that it’s part of the module.
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Back in UL since yesterday. Since I came home I’ve put together my new rig, completed Call of Duty 4 single player, played an obscene amount of games (CoD4, UT3 and DoW:Soulstorm) with Seán, Niall, Kev and Tadhg, put together an IRC server which authenticates off recharged.info (that project meant I didn’t go to bed one night). Speaking of sleep, I’m well over my jet lag. Here’s how I ended up sleeping:

• Came home and stayed up until when I should be going to sleep anyway. Went to bed. Woke up at a normal time.
• Completely missed a night’s sleep. Slept for an hour at lunchtime the next day. Went to bed at a normal time. Woke up at a normal time.
• Been fine since

Sitting in CSIS now listening to Might Crown by CROWN JUGGLAZ. Far east rulaz! Thanks to J-Foat at Havok for introducing me to these guys.

Had a couple of classes yesterday. Looking like this semester might be fun. We have one module which is project based as well as the FYP but the variation should keep it interesting, provided there’s time to get everything done.

Got to hear how everyone got screwed over by UL with their co-ops yesterday too. Going to try to talk to someone about it and get them to listen to our feedback on our experiences. A lot of people didn’t complete their co-ops; including the reason that the university couldn’t place some people!! Even on campus!

Anyway, it’s good to be back in Ireland and back in university. Experience in San Francisco couldn’t have been better but I was missing home.