1000 Ways to Walk: An Analysis of Movement in Video Games

  Introduction Welcome to my new blog, 1000 Ways to Walk:  An Analysis of Movement in Video Games. Let’s start with this question: What is walking? Walking is the physical movement of standing up and using your legs to travel. There are multiple ways of walking:  walking slow, fast, or even just your normal everyday strolling. There is also moon walking, which is basically walking backwards. That’s one version of moon walking; for the other you would have to be on the moon, in space, or in an antigravity environment. In this blog, I will be talking about walking (and other kinds of movement) in video games. An interesting fact is that not all video games allow walking, so I will be looking at the different forms of movement. Movement also includes a whole other set of activities such as jumping, crawling, crouching, climbing, swinging your arms, and more.  I will be looking at a wide variety of games from 2 dimensional (2d) games to 3 dimensional (3d) games, and even...