More on the theme “Games in the NY Times”. Two interesting articles in the last two days.
When Dungeons & Dragons Set Off a ‘Moral Panic’
The print article is of interest in itself, but of more interest is the 13 minute video piece at the top of the article. Called a ‘Retro Report’, “a series of video documentaries examining major news stories of the past and their reverberations.”
Interesting as a form of new video media embedded in old print media, and as an attempt to take retrospective looks at things that were ‘hot’ news in our ‘not-so-distant-pasts’.
For example… remember this?
http://www.retroreport.org/video/nuclear-winter/
… also, in the NY Times magazine, a feature on Minecraft.
THE MINECRAFT GENERATION: How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching millions of children to master the digital world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-minecraft-generation.html
Nice article. Wastes a lot of time trying to make the subject respectable by reference to the developmental virtues of playing with wooden blocks. But otherwise, ‘gets it’, and succeeds in presenting the essential delight of Minecraft in the lead.
I also give them props for making their own NY Times Minecraft world, and sharing it. And telling the reader…
To play, you’ll need a computer with Minecraft and a child who’s familiar with the game. Once you have those things, just log on to the nytmag.hypixel.net server (your child will know what this means).
FEATURED WORLD: New York Times Magazine & Christoph Niemann
https://goo.gl/U0zzGk