Controllers Controlled
A roundtable with Nicolas Nova, Aram Sinnreich, and Tracy Fullerton on what the thing in our hands does to the way we play.
Our experiences of videogames are unwittingly shaped by what we hold in our hands. The contours, the button placements, the size, and even the color of the controllers shape our gameplay, no less than the stitches on football beget the spiral or the texture of a tennis ball affects its rotation. We asked three scholars to kindly reflect on videogame controllers.
