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Virtual Laboratories: Mesocosms and Gameworlds
Teorie Vedy/ Theory of ScienceThis article explores the role of digital games as virtual laboratories for addressing ecological and climate change challenges. It begins by examining the intersection of citizen science and digital gaming, specifically initiatives that have enabled ...
Dustin Breitling
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The Fictional Incompleteness of Digital Gameworlds
Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association, 2022 This paper presents and analyzes forms of fictional incompleteness that are commonly encountered as part of the experience of playing digital games. While some of these forms are recognized to be compatible with the incompleteness that characterizes non-interactive fictions (such as novels, paintings, and films), some of the ways in which fictional ...
Van de Mosselaer, Nele, Gualeni, Stefano
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Anàlisi: Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura, 2016 This paper proposes the notion of “meta-literacy”, understood as the player´s ability to navigate between spheres of reality and/or cross boundaries when interacting with a gameworld. We examine how meta-aesthetics functions in vide ogames and argue that
Silviano Carrasco, Susana Tosca
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The Implied Designer and the Experience of Gameworlds
DiGRA Digital Library, 2020 Abstract: As artefacts, gameworlds are designed and developed to fulfil certain functional and creative objectives. Players infer these purposes and aspirations from various aspects of their engagement with games. Based on their socio-cultural background, their sensitivities, gameplay preferences, and game literacy, they construct a subjective ...
Stefano Gualeni
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, 2014 Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life.
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Divide and the Rules: A Study on the Colonial Inheritance of Digital Games
Humanities, 2023 The current article is an exploration into the colonial inheritance of digital games. It argues that the pervasiveness and persistence of discursive practices, like imagining the play world as the otherworld and valuing the play world for its pedagogical
Prabhash Ranjan Tripathy
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Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2023 This article discusses four movies in which transgressions between gameworlds and diegetic realities take center stage: Brainscan (1994), Stay Alive (2006), Livescream (2018), and Choose or Die (2022).
Michael Fuchs
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Euthanasia in Video Games – Exemplifying the Importance of Moral Experience in Digital Gameworlds
Pannoniana, 2022 The paper classifies euthanasia and discusses its typological presence in storytelling video games. It aims to illustrate the importance of experiencing simulated moral challenges in the context of gameworlds as a significantly influential ...
Luka Perušić
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The Implied Designer of Digital Games
Estetika, 2023 As artefacts, the worlds of digital games are designed and developed to fulfil certain expressive, functional, and experiential objectives. During play, players infer these purposes and aspirations from various aspects of their engagement with the ...
Nele Van de Mosselaer, Stefano Gualeni
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Reducing Extrinsic Burdens on Players of Digital Games: An Integrated Framework
Media and Communication, 2019 Increasingly complex gameplay and gameworlds are placing greater demands on players, while grander approaches to help them cope, such as heads-up displays (HUDs), maps, notifications, and real-time statistics, may often create even more layers of ...
Harry Agius, Damon Daylamani-Zad
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