DiGRA '11 - Proceedings of the 2011 DiGRA International Conference: Think Design Play
DiGRA/Utrecht School of the Arts, January, 2011
Volume: 6
ISBN / ISNN: ISSN 2342-9666
The process of reading a modernist poem is just as much a process of deconstructing it: the language is designed to make meaning through inefficient means. The reader must decode the text. The process of reading is not unlike the process of playing. I compare masocore games with the poetics of William Carlos Williams to discuss how constraints can be meaningful through the affordances of each medium.
close readings, constraints, game studies, masocore, modernist poetry, Super Meat Boy, William Carlos, Williams Limbo