Stefan Hall

Associate Professor of CommunicationHigh Point University

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Indie Games in the Atari Era

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Stefan Hall High Point University

September 06, 2018
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Indie Games in the Atari Era Atari VCS. Atari 2600 Birthday Mania Gamma-Attack Red Sea Crossing Extra Terrestrials Indie Game Homebrew Curator's Note Indie games as a wing of the game industry, and as shorthand for a particular style (aesthetic and t ...
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Blocky but Good: Atari and their RealSports Brand

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Stefan Hall High Point University

March 25, 2017
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Blocky but Good: Atari and their RealSports Brand VCS Sports Video Games RealSports Mattel Intellivision Baseball atari Curator's Note While the current incarnations of NBA 2K, Madden, and FIFA are technically advanced representatives of design f ...

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Re: Death, statues and legends

Avatars & Statues

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Stefan Hall High Point University

Friday, March 31, 2017 — 7:13 pm
Trying to arrest a moment in a digital medium essentially amounts to a snapshot, quite a different beast from a physical monument. Plenty of sports monuments, particularly statues of players, have been created, but this makes me thinks of game development ...
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Re: "Who Makes These Kinds of Things?" Dynamics of Power in Madden NFL

statistics and ludology

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Stefan Hall High Point University

Friday, March 31, 2017 — 7:10 pm
What I find interesting about this piece is that these stats are extrapolated (or sometimes directly copied) from a variety of sources/metrics, and really under the hood of the game is the code and its use of these figures, but that the actual humans that ...
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Re: Tiny Titan

effective PR to humanize a "tiny" error

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Stefan Hall High Point University

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 — 12:45 am
I think EA's response to this glitch was a great example of how to take something potentially full of derision, especially among the rather boisterous gaming community, and carefully gauge the player reactions to see how to best spin it into somethin ...