Conference follow-up II.
Gonzalo Frasca is writing about May Payne, the game, these days. It reminds me of the most absurd experience I had while at Finnish conference. They had an computerised practices exhibition, where 2 guys were presenting May Payne - in Finnish. Their presentation was translated on the spot into sign language by a sign language interpreter, and what she did made perfect sense I guess (could I but have understood sign language at least!) until they played the Max Payne game trailer and she apparently started "translating" all the gun noises and explosions accompanying the trailer into sign language too. Wonder if it makes any sense (in the "fun" way) to play a game like this if you are completely deaf? I guess it does in some ways, but the experience made me speculate on exactly how important sound is to the experience of games like that. And how completely unable you are to make sense of the world, if you do not understand any of the languages that surround you, be it verbal or visual.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 12:44