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Reconfiguring Daoist Cultivation ina Video Game A Case Study of AMAZING CULTIVATION SIMULATOR

Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2023
With Amazing Cultivation Simulator (GSQ Studio, CN 2019) as a case study, thisarticle analyses how this video game reconfigures the practice of self-cultivation,which has deep roots in religious Daoism, and how it was inspired by online novels ina ...
Yuan, Ye
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A Study on Visualization of Digital Twin Electric Vehicles Based on Gamification: A Simulation Using Game Engines

Tehnički Glasnik
This study investigated a methodology for implementing and simulating a digital twin (metaverse) electric vehicle visualization with gamification using a game engine (Unity 3D).
Jung Tae Kim
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“I bet she’s ‘not like other girls’”: Discursive Construction of the Ideal Gaming Woman on r/GirlGamers

Media and Communication
Research on women and hostile behaviour in video games has largely focused on women as victims rather than perpetuators of hostile behaviour. In this study, by utilizing discourse analysis, we examine how women’s hostile behaviour is discussed in the ...
Maria Ruotsalainen, Mikko Meriläinen
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Scenarios for Revolution in Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991) and Sid Meier’s Colonization (1994)

Locus, 2023
This article examines the function and representation of the historical concept of ‘revolution’ in Sid Meier’s Civilization and its offshoot Colonization. Revolution is a central concept in both games, although it has a different character and purpose in
Martijn van der Burg
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Game Design as STS Research

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2017
Game design offers a powerful pedagogical paradigm for engaging students in thinking and researching sociotechnical systems. Using the example of designing a game around fracking, this paper describes how game design grapples with emergent dynamic ...
Joseph Dumit
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Introducing Mad Studies and Mad Reading to Game Studies

, 2022
The aim of this paper is to introduce and develop mad studies as a theory and mad reading as a method for examining representations of madness in games.
Rodéhn, Cecilia,
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Collectionner des jeux vidéo au Québec: Une communauté naviguant entre société distincte et mondialisation incontournable

, 2021
This article takes a look at the community of game collectors in Quebec, first by exploring how ludovideophily compares itself from classic collecting. We then isolate Quebec video game collection to identify how the community navigates through a world ...
Lefloic-Lebel, Adam, Adam Lefloïc-Lebel
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Het spel en de regels. Game studies voor politiek theoretici en cultuurwetenschappers

Locus, 2023
Game studies offers numerous starting points for research by political theorists and cultural scholars. Politics is largely a regulated game, with discussion of the rules of the game always part of the political struggle.
Wim de Jong
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¿Quiénes somos en los juegos de estrategia? Un análisis de las posiciones encarnadas e imaginadas por los jugadores en Frostpunk

Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación, 2022
“¿Quiénes somos en el mundo del juego?” ha sido una pregunta habitual en los game studies. Diversos estudios al respecto han propuesto tipologías fenomenológicas de nuestra presencia en el mundo del juego, así como potenciales funciones de los avatares y
Carlos Moreno Azqueta
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Urban archetypes applied to the study of cities in historic contemporary fictions. Symbolic urban structures in Age of Empires III and Bioshock Infinite

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2020
In “The Idea of a Town: Anthropology of Urban Form” (1976), architecture historian Joseph Rykwert defined six archetypes used in Etruscan rites for the foundation of urban settlements, which continued to be used in Classical Greece and Ancient Rome.
Manuel Sánchez García
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