CS 148/248
Assignment 2
Winter 2009

Name: 
Game:

Answer the questions below based on the game you played for 8 hours for assignment 1. Turn this in electronically, by email, as a text file, PDF or word doc; the assignment should be sent to the course TA, Sherol Chen (ffpaladin@gmail.com).

1. Which of these four modes of interactivity, external/exploratory, internal/exploratory, external/ontological, or internal/ontological is evidenced in the game you played. Argue for your answer, providing concrete examples of interaction to make your point. 









2. Describe the paida (manipulation) rules and ludus (goal) rules of your game.










3. Analyze the agency in terms of material and formal affordances. If you’re arguing that the game you played has low agency, then argue how the material and formal affordances are out of balance (and in which direction they are out of balance). If arguing the game has high agency, then argue how the material and formal affordances are in balance.





4. For each of Jenkin’s four spatial narrative strategies, argue how the game you played does or doesn’t make use of each strategy. Use concrete examples when making your arguments.