It's hard not to want to sleep so much more these days. It's 5 here and of course already dark dark dark. The birds have been flying around and around from roof to roof, a greater gathering of wings. Meanwhile a christmas market has sprung up at Alexander Platz. I can see the little wooden shacks through a space between two buildings and the crescent curve of a ferris wheel above another. I'm glad there will be lights there since sometimes the days barely seem to get light at all. And even then, by the time I get out of class it is dusk.
Today in uni we had a workshop where we talked about game sound. It was mostly a review of the history of computer games and how sound effects and music has been integrated. It was pretty interesting, if only because I know so little about the computer game world and never had a playstation or gameboy or something similar. It was cool to consider the way people went about inventing games and how they developed in parallel to computers. The fact that games for computer have been around almost as long as computers themselves says a lot about the way we think about using new mediums. Like the original space shooter game that took a whole room of machines to run. And now we have little silver bullet boxes that blip and light and bleep and flicker.
It started me reading about the games that people are trying to develop nowadays, trying to lift the genre out of the bloody gutter of the first-person shooter. Thinking about how we interact with/through these machines never ceases to confound me.
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