#Blog 2

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

This is me btw

Yeagh

That’s the Main blog

So if you see this guy liking your posts

That’s me

:3

Im gonna @ myself

@tadpoles-yay

Wake tf up you’ve been mentioned

[doublerainbow-if]

So this will be the blog for my vague plot outlines and characters that don't have to with Double Rainbow.

[digimediasourcesandsignificance]

Blog 2:Medium Specificity: How Platforms Shape Gaming Experiences

An profound impact on the platform on which a game is played on the storytelling approach and the overall user-experience. Such like the Mobile, PC, and console platforms individually cater the player needs, the preferences, and the technological capabilities, to create a rare route for the storytelling. This variation exemplifies the Marshall McLuhan’s theory of the medium specificity, which emphasizes that how the characteristics of a medium influence the way of content is delivered and consumed.

The mobile gaming, as shown the tiles such like Gentian Impact, must focuses on accessibility and the portability, by offering an episodic content and the gacha mechanics align with the modern platforms on the go-culture, to by promoting microtransactions and frequent interactions (Whitson & Simon, 2021). The storytelling often revolves around easily digestible quests and some events that players can engage with casually, making the narrative increasingly flexible and episodic in design. The mobile platforms thus the favor bite-sized of the storytelling, and staying the players immersed without demanding for long-term commitment.

Somehow, console exclusive game such as The Last of Us, focus more on cinematic storytelling and take advantage of the console’s powerful hardware to show rich designs, high definition graphics, audio immersion. For instance, visuals like The Last of Us utilize photorealistic visuals, a gripping story wrapped in a good narrative, coupled with a dynamic character development that keeps players hooked with a deep and harrowing tale of survival and humanity.

The PC platforms do offers customization and player agency to users playing, who like the ability to make the gaming experience be what they want (Juul, 2022).PC platforms can also supports a variety of gameplay styles, from story games like Red redemption 2,Gta 5..., to highly competitive eSports titles games such as valornt,FIFA,Dota 2..., and to open-ended sandbox games that enable a wide opportunity of narrative possibility. This focus on user agency exemplifies the degree to which PCs work to transform players from passive consumers of a narrative into active participants in the story.

The variations on these vary platforms prominently underline how the platforms can shape the game narrative, producing different game experiences suited to their respective medium-specific traits.

Conclusion

Diversity extends to the games available on PC platforms, ranging from hyper-competitive eSports titles to open-ended sandboxes that can foster any number of narrated experiences. This player agency highlights the way in which PCs are invited to take on an active role in telling the story.

If you wanted to get schooled on medium specificity in gaming, it is very useful to understand how platforms create the experience of stories. I have learned that the medium plays a role beyond delivering a story as is; it shapes how a story gets told, how it gets delivered to its audience, and how the audience receives it. It also aids analyzing games in ways that go beyond their stories and into how a platform’s uniqueness is shaped into narrative.

This could be applied to my creative practice in knowing how to adjust a storytelling style to platform For example, designing for mobile I would prioritize flexible, episodic content that fits users on-the-go lifestyle. For console I could focus on cinematic, emotional storytelling that leveraged the horsepower. But on PC, the level of immersion and personalization would mainly involve adding customization and player agency to the gameplay.

Not only can this approach enrich my reading of and response to existing games, it can further my understanding of the relationship between medium and narrative. This revelation would drive my growth as a creative practitioner, forcing new narratives tailored to specific platforms.

References

Juul, J. (2022) A casual revolution: Reinventing video games and their players. 2nd edn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Whitson, J.R., Simon, B., and Parker, F. (2021) 'The Missing Producer: Rethinking indie cultural production in terms of entrepreneurship, relational labour, and sustainability', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(2), pp. 606–627.

[agreentealeaf]

i saw people on tiktok talking about how AU ekko and powder are taller and look healthier because they were properly fed and just have healthier lifestyles and i fear this broke me

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The first two images are of Jinx/Powder and Ekko from the alternate timeline in Arcane. Jinx has pale, pinkish skin with a warm glow and a round face. She looks forward with bright, shiny eyes.

Alternate Ekko looks similarly young and healthy with glowing skin.

The second two images are of Jinx and Ekko from the normal timeline. Jinx holds a gun to her head as she appears to be about to say something. Her skin is sickly pale, almost translucent. Her eyes are darker and sunken in, and her cheekbones are prominent.

Normal timeline Ekko does not have the same stark differences, but his skin is slightly duller, and his cheekbones are somewhat more pronounced. The difference is made more stark by the fact that he appears downcast.

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[uinferno]

Genuine Question

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[ashcremated]

✨🌙✨

[blownawayy]

i want the world to stop for like 1 year so i can rest

[bicolor-art]

bad science

[drownthehatch]

[tf2-ask]

hey BLU soldier, i bought this dress in the wrong size. but it looks like it'll fit you, so you can have it if you want it

artist: @cringefortress2

to ask question hit the ASK button!

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[grantwilson]

we are discussing our childhood passions on the dash tonight

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[arcanescreencaps]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”