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04/29/2005 Archived Entry: "Why photography makes good gameplay"

Why photography makes good gameplay: Photography is strategic. Photography involves collecting, exploring, investigating. Photography has clear compositional rules. Photography is a twitch game. Photography relates to weaponry via conceptual metaphor: shot, a shoot, snapshot, aim, capture, fire-off, even camera shy is a play on gunshy. As such, it can easily play off the natural affordances of current game engines and frameworks.

Just some things I'm thinking about as I'm writing a paper on photography and games.