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Media and Communication, 2021 The article explores the limitations of the current scholarly game studies (GS) field. Its central presuppositions are (1) that there are certain attributes broadly understood as “GS” by those writing in or adjacent to the field; (2) that those ...
Alex Gekker
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The light, the dark, and everything else: making sense of young people's digital gaming
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Whether gaming has a beneficial or detrimental effect on young people's lives is a defining feature in both the research and the public discussion of youth digital gaming.
Mikko Meriläinen, Maria Ruotsalainen
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Story beats in videogames as value-driven choice-based unit operations
Images, 2021 We present a framework of story beats, defined as microunits of dramatic action, as a tool for the ludonarrative analysis of videogames. First, we explain the Goal - Action - Reaction - Outcome model of the story beat.
Michał Mochocki, Raine Koskimaa
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LOST WORLDS OF ANDROMEDA [PDF]
Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2021 The paper offers a reading of Mass Effect: Andromeda (BioWare, 2017) vis-à-vis lost world romance (also dubbed “lost race romance”, or “imperial romance”), a late-Victorian era novelistic genre originating from H.
Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra
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THREE TYPES OF NOSTALGIA IN COMPUTER GAMES
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023 The article is devoted to the problems of representation of nostalgia in computer games and offers a distinction between its three interrelated forms: retrotopic, aestheticizing, nostalgia for childhood and lost parental home. These forms are featured in
Ksenia V. Igaeva
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Game Studies through ‘Conceptual Games’: The case of Doors
DiGRA Digital Library, 2023 Can games be used to communicate theoretical knowledge that is relevant to game studies? Like conceptual works of art, some games are designed to convey intellectually significant ideas in ways that are not exclusively linguistic. Drawing from art theory, we argue that the kinds of ideas one can experience practically and firsthand through ‘conceptual ...
Gualeni, Stefano, Van de Mosselaer, Nele
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Editorial: Die Darstellung von künstlichem Leben im Computerspiel
MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 2022 Darstellungen künstlicher Lebensformen beflügeln nicht nur die Fantasie, sondern sind auch Ausdruck einer Reflexion des technologischen Fortschritts.
Christopher Könitz
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Avatars Going Mainstream: Typology of Tropes in Avatar-Based Storytelling Practices [PDF]
, 2016 Due to the growing popularity of video games, gaming itself has become a shared experience among media audiences worldwide. The phenomenon of avatar-based games has led to the emergence of new storytelling practices.
Tymińska, Marta
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Risk Dominance Selects the Leader: An Experimental Analysis [PDF]
, 2000 We perform an experimental analysis to test whether the risk dominance prediction is supported by the behavior of laboratory agents, in a 2X 2 coordination game whose equilibria are not Pareto ranked.
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