Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an informed look at architecture in games and at how school design relates to shooter maps and Columbine.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jacob Geller

Topic

architecture of violence in games and schools

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• For a more informed analysis of architecture in games, Jacob Geller has done several video essays on the topic: The Shape of Infinity [LINK] Games, Schools, and Worlds designed for Violence [VIDEO] Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House [LINK] Gaming's Harshest Architecture …

• Jacob Geller has an excellent video essay about how incidents like Columbine might have contributed to this trend (if only post-90s, obviously). [VIDEO]

• Jacob Geller did a really interesting video essay [1] about the parallels that can be drawn between modern school architecture and maps from shooter games - on top of whatever other context or functionality they provide, they are fundamentally spaces that are designed around the …