Just FYI, the “author is dead” thing is about interpreting a text directly according to what is actually there, without concerning yourself with what the “Author” may or may not have intended. When you talk about altering a text, by example, modding it or using a Game Genie, this is actually something quite different, because you are actually creating a new text that would then require different interpretations from the reader
I selected the Game Genie because it’s not capable of adding stuff and it takes a lot more codework than normos would do to change the game considerably. But U Rite, modding especially is more like fanfiction, analagously.
Video games are actually interesting wrt the conception of authorship, because it’s even harder to assign a unitary Author to them. Hundreds of people have input on the finished product. Thousands if you count people like QA and beta testers.
A lot of games are also based on long community traditions of modification too. Popular games like League of Legends and Dota2 for instance are based on a mod called Dota Allstars which is itself an amalgamation of other popular Warcraft 3 mods along with solicited direct incorporation of player suggestions then of course the base game of warcraft itself is a rip off of warhammer and it goes on. The ability to modify these games is often an encouraged and developer supported core feature of the games.
Just FYI, the “author is dead” thing is about interpreting a text directly according to what is actually there, without concerning yourself with what the “Author” may or may not have intended. When you talk about altering a text, by example, modding it or using a Game Genie, this is actually something quite different, because you are actually creating a new text that would then require different interpretations from the reader
uhhh, yea. because the original text in this case is either shit for someone cause they don’t like it or just not playable for them straight up.
I’m not saying that modifying a text is bad, just that it is different from the original
I selected the Game Genie because it’s not capable of adding stuff and it takes a lot more codework than normos would do to change the game considerably. But U Rite, modding especially is more like fanfiction, analagously.
Video games are actually interesting wrt the conception of authorship, because it’s even harder to assign a unitary Author to them. Hundreds of people have input on the finished product. Thousands if you count people like QA and beta testers.
Most g*mers just reduce it to whoever the director is
Especially funny in this case because GRRM wrote most of the lore
Accordingg to an interview i read he only provided some broad sketches early on in the game’s development.
A lot of games are also based on long community traditions of modification too. Popular games like League of Legends and Dota2 for instance are based on a mod called Dota Allstars which is itself an amalgamation of other popular Warcraft 3 mods along with solicited direct incorporation of player suggestions then of course the base game of warcraft itself is a rip off of warhammer and it goes on. The ability to modify these games is often an encouraged and developer supported core feature of the games.