PEEPING ROBIN HAIL TO THE SIDEKICK #peepingrobin
Peeping Robin - Hail to the Sidekick
Nov 28, 2014
"Peeping Robin" is a neologism created to investigate (with humor) the ever-growing role of cooperation in single player video games: from the "voyeuristic" pleasure of just enjoying watching someone playing to the relation built between player and watcher, up to the boom of Twitch phenomenon.
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PEEPING ROBIN HAIL TO THE SIDEKICK
#peepingrobin
Peeping1 Robin peep.ing ro.bin [pipin robin] The “voyeuristic pleasure” of watching someone playing a videogame. The watcher’s “immersion pleasure” is not intended as a process of passive exposure to images but in terms of embodiment and identification.
How does someone become a
peeping robin ?
ONCE UPON A TIME
BEING THE LAST OF 5 CHILDREN MEANT
ME!
ADAPT OR DIE
TRY TO PILE UP
THE RED PIEC..
TETRIS IS NO
CANDY CRUSH!
I KNOW WHICH
FURNITURE TO
SEARCH FOR
THE PASSWOR...
IMPOSSIBLE
MISSION IS
NO IKEA!*
*PLUS IT'S RANDOMIZED
AT EACH GAME
YOU’LL NEVER
GET PAST THAT
POOL OF WAT...
THOMAS
IS NOT ALONE!
COOPERATIVE SINGLE PLAYER?!
ONE PLAYER CONTROLS MULTIPLE COOPERATING
CHARACTERS
QUADRILATERAL COWBOY
ONE PLAYER CONTROLS THE GAME, PEEPING ROBIN COMPLAINS ABOUT THE READING SPEED
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO
WATCHING VS PLAYING
1.PLAYING IS TOO MUCH EFFORT YOU JUST ENJOY THE RIDE
2.YOU NEVER (ACTUALLY) LOSE BATMAN DOES
3.YOU (SLOWLY) BECOME THE MIND BUT NEVER GET THE BLAME OF FAILURE
THE BIG DISCOVERY
THE TURNING POINT June 6th 2011
Twitch1 tw.itch [tuitch] gaming live streaming video platform 43,000,000 Peeping Robins per month!
THE MORAL OF THE STORY
FROM THE BLACK SHEEP
TO THE CHICKEN THAT LAIS THE GOLDEN EGGS
THANK YOU!
#peepingrobin
BTW I HATE SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
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