{"id":275,"date":"2025-11-11T02:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/?p=275"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:52:01","slug":"week-6-jordan-magnuson-game-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/2025\/11\/11\/week-6-jordan-magnuson-game-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Six -&gt;&gt; Jordan Magnuson Game Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jordan Magnuson spearheaded this session, talking about his main research focus, game poetry. He asked us many questions surrounding this topic to try to inspire us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What is a game poem, and why should you care?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can the basic building blocks of video games be used to explore tough topics, create new, thoughtful experiences, etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do we often talk about making good video games?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What about tiny games that explore the loose ends of life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He then continued on to what a game is perceived to be and how it links within poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A game&#8217;s aspects should be&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Narrative &#8211; telling good stories<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gameplay\/mechanics &#8211; balanced gameplay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mechanics, unique, feel, satisfying<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complicated emotions, tragic events, unknown areas, and experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A game can be a poem without words from the feelings it invokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Poems juxtapose signified meaning with material meaning; they are hyperbolic, short and subjective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this very provocative and gave me a new viewpoint on a link that I generally wasn&#8217;t interested in. I feel like this talk has showcased the fact that games do not need to be complicated to evoke a strong feeling, as shown by Jordan&#8217;s poetry games. I will take this into account when pushing my idea further for my project proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Magnuson spearheaded this session, talking about his main research focus, game poetry. He asked us many questions surrounding this topic to try to inspire us. He then continued on to what a game is perceived to be and how it links within poetry. A game&#8217;s aspects should be&#8230; A game can be a poem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/aa14g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}