Mountains revisited: theory in field practice

Month: March 2022

  • The Gallery Visit (Red Dead Journey, PART IV)

    Hi there! Once again, welcome to my video game-themed blog. In this post, I’m going to talk about today’s gallery visit. The work I was most interested in I found at the beginning of the visit. It was entitled “Borderland” and was authored by Adam Kašpar. I was intrigued by the landscape captured in the…

  • Hiking the Virtual Mountains (Red Dead Journey, PART III)

    Hello there! A bit soon, I know, but welcome to my Blogpost № 3! In this post, I’m going to look at how I plan to proceed and the methods I’d use to do it. First of all, I start with the most time-consuming stuff. Since I’m not a person who likes to find out…

  • Mountains of World of Warcraft

    In my paper I will focus on mountains in a massive multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft. In the game there is a planet Azeroth which is divided in three main continents: Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and Northrend. Smaller continents are Pandaria, Broken Isles, Zandalar and Kul Tiras. Each continent is divided into zones, similar…

  • Mount Targon

    Before this seminar, I thought of mountains in video games as mere obstacles or backdrops, as challenging areas that might introduce new mechanics to the gaming experience or as stunning landscapes where one can get lost for a while and forget about the real world. The ideas I have read in others’ blog posts, as…

  • Eastern Echoes

    Foot of Mount Koya – – distant peal of Bonshōechoes from the top Imagine standing at the bottom of a mountain somewhere far east. You’ve already walked almost the whole day now, yet its peak somewhere up in the heights unimaginable doesn’t seem any closer than it did in the morning. Your body is tired, but…

  • Women’s Empowerment Through Mountains

    Feminism by definition is the advocacy of equality of sexes and genders. The distinction that society makes between genders is still heavily overweighted by the rights that have been currently acquired after decades of battling for them. Women, specially, have had a harder path to travel through, which does not mean that men are not…

  • The Redemption Mountains (Red Dead Journey, PART II)

    Hi! As I said in my previous post, I’m going to focus my research on one specific game and its mountains. I understand that this is such a “nothing to say” sentence, so I will try to explain what I want to convey with this research and what I want to prove. The game I…

  • Time and the Mountains

    Photographs of well-captured mountains have always captivated me with their unique sense of moment; a moment that is forever captured in a photograph that serves as a time capsule that can bring us closer to the beauties or ruins of the past much more than anything. Time is an unclear magnitude in our lives in…

  • A Brief Story of Humanity and Mounain.

    Since the day when humanity learned how to compose with words, they never stopped telling stories. Re-creating the world with their vision, their imagination and perception. Tales are as old as the very first human civilization, and unite every cultures of the world, fancying legends, stories, the thrill and the emotion. Sometimes as wise lessons,…

  • Pixel Mountains

    To truly research the impact of mountains in the strangely misunderstood medium of videogames, I wish to delve into not blog posts and journalistic articles written by people with an agenda for or against the medium. In Czechia, we see it often, as do people in America. The vilification of video games as something bad,…