podcast: Thematic Game Design
Monday, April 14th, 2008Man Bytes Blog, Episode #4: Today’s podcast delivers a twisted retelling of Jorinda & Joringel, a brief recap of the the last week of posts on theme and metaphor and issues a game design challenge that draws upon the conversation over the last week.
Today’s podcast features Creative Commons licensed tracks from the album Instrumental Field [...]
Disney Is To Grimm as Grimm Is To
Sunday, April 13th, 2008I had a conversation with someone the other day who argued that Microsoft was the standard platform for the desktop and it was therefore not terribly useful to fore-go the use of their software. The industry, he avowed, is almost entirely Microsoft so why fight it? Moments later he was railing against Disney for their [...]
Exploring Theme: Jorinda & Joringel
Friday, April 11th, 2008Today’s post is going to wrap up our examination of the themes of the Grimm Brother’s traditional fairy tale Jorinda and Joringel.[1] While previous posts this week have spelunked for the theme by digging into various metaphoric elements within the text, today’s post is going to attempt to weave the discovered themes into some semblance [...]
Exploring Theme: A Rose By any Other Name
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Today we continue to the exploration of the themes of Jorinda and Joringel by examining the metaphors contained within the text.[1]
We have one more major element to discuss before pulling our focus back a bit and look at the overall theme of the narrative. This element is the, “blood-red flower, in the middle of which [...]
Exploring Theme: Which Witch is Which?
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Today we continue to the exploration of the themes of Jorinda and Joringel by examining the metaphors contained within the text.[1] If you’re just joining us, I read and discussed this Grimm fairy tale in my last podcast and followed up with a post talking about the birds that appear in the story.
Having discussed the [...]
exploring theme: for the birds
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008I was tempted to start my exploration of Jorinda and Joringel* with the witch. After all, the tale begins with the witch and she’s certainly critical to the central themes. I’ve decided, however, partly in the interest of time (which I don’t have enough of today) and partly in the interest of clarity (which I [...]
podcast: exploring theme
Monday, April 7th, 2008This podcast, my third, is thematically related to April’s Round Table topic. In it, I start a discussion on theme that we’ll continue throughout the week’s posts–exploring together how finding the metaphors within a narrative can be used to understand its theme. As the basis for our discussion, most of this podcast is dedicated to [...]