#JFK RELOADED DALTEX CODE#

But beginning with line 224,070, we find plain text information that resembles XML structured data, accompanied by programmer comments.ДЇor example, the following lines specify the actions that should occur when a generic character is fatally hit by OswaldвЂ™s rifle: In the case of JFK Reloaded, opening up the core000.wad in a text editor reveals mostly binary codes that look like junk (because they ought to be opened in hexadecimal editor rather than a plain text editor). Originally used in Doom, WADs or similar composite files are now commonplace in many PC games. WAD stands for вЂњWhereвЂ™s All the Data?вЂќ a WAD file is a collection of individual sounds, sprites, level information, NPC (non-playable character) behavior, and other often customizable game data.

#JFK RELOADED DALTEX CODE#

I want to look at a very precise kind of texture, the human-readable comments that appear in the code in one of the two WAD files that comprise JFK ReloadedвЂs game assets. In other words, the game emerges out of a specific time and place, textured by the touch of countless hands.

But it is also a historical artifact itself.

The game is indeed part of a documentary tradition, or to be more precise, an engagement with documentary evidence and historical archives, as Poremba suggests. Today I want to double back on my and these other videogame scholarsвЂ™ interpretations of JFK Reloaded. JFK Reloaded doesnвЂ™t ask us to play history so much as to reimagine history. For my own part, I argued that the gameвЂ™s greatest strength was not as a documentary videogame, but as an engine of counterfactual historical thinking. Even though the Kennedy family called the game вЂњdespicable,вЂќ many scholars argued that JFK Reloaded was a legitimate engagement with history (see Raessens, 2006 Bogost, 2007 Fullerton, 2008 and Bogost et al., 2010).

The game lets players reenact the Kennedy assassination, the goal being to match the findings of the Warren Commission Report with as much accuracy as possible. In my previous post on Play the Past, I looked at the way critics and scholars made sense of the videogame JFK: Reloaded (Traffic, 2004).

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