Edit: After class Tuesday I realized I need to narrow down my topic. I will now be focusing on video game wiki pages. The 3 are:
Minecraft
World of Warcraft
Starfox
I will no longer be doing the texts below.
For Project 2 I'm going to focus on video games.
My first is actually video which can be viewed here. The company who is producing this is game is a huge company and this is the 5th or 6th game in the series. In these videos they demonstrate the difference and new feature in the game. They focus on differences and complexity of the new game.
The next text is sub-site on reddit.com (aka sub-reddit) found here. Reddit is pretty much a group of 3 million users, all with the same inside jokes. In the Gaming sub-reddit, people share funny, new, exciting, odd things and the community eats it up and loves it. The group who uses reddit is usual younger and more tech-savy folks. This text is very much community bases and is driven by the community.
Notch started working for himself as a game developer full-time about a year or so ago. His creation and baby is Minecraft. The text we're looking at is Notch's Twitter (here). Notch is HUGELY popular on the internet and has probably the largest group of internet followers. This text is different from all the rest because it is limited to a certain number of character, it comes straight from the design developer himself, and its instantly sent to tons of people. Notch also often replies to people who tweet at him. Notch helps make himself approachable with his twitter.
This topic seems perfect. It's focused and seems very doable. I honestly know very little about what would constitute a well made video game wiki page. Since I don't play video games, I wouldn't know what game wiki pages to suggest but it sounds like you've got a handle on this topic. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting - never really thought about how most everything is on wikipedia - but that does say something about what genre you are getting, it has to be a game pretty well known, right? or is that part of the narrowing down of video games that you are doing? And why do people wiki games? Why not just play them...oh well. Tired. D:
ReplyDeleteNarrowing down and focusing in I think will be a help, so good call.
ReplyDeleteA few things to think about when you're focusing on this analysis are to pay attention to the how and why a little more than the content itself. Ask yourself what modes do the texts use? What's the rhetorical situation for each? Do they employ color, alignment, sequence, proximity, etc etc and if so, to what ends? It'll be like the presidential website analysis we did in class and/or like the wsu page analysis in Chapter 2, and/or a bit like the videogame analysis texts in Chapter 3. If you have any questions please let me know.