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Perspectives on the European videogame [PDF]
, 2021 A relatively common approach in game studies understands gameworlds as constituting an existential situation for the player. Taking that stance, which is rooted in the European philosophical tradition of Existentialism, in this chapter we investigate the
Gualeni, Stefano, Vella, Daniel
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, 2022 Philosophical games are games designed to invite players to think philosophically within (and about) their gameworlds. They are interactive fictions allowing players to engage with philosophical themes in ways that often set them apart from non ...
Gualeni, Stefano
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.This graphical abstract provides an overview of the study's context, approach, key findings and implications. This ecoculturally informed study examined children's digital play and well‐being in relation to broader contexts, routines and practices.
Fiona Scott +5 more
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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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, 2006 We propose that understandings of the role of space and place in everyday life are of value to designing the environment of Role Playing Games (RPGs). We compare aspects of space and place in spatial experiences while moving through terrains in physical ...
Browning, David +3 more
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The Protopolitics of Play: From Gameworlds to Playing-in-the-World [PDF]
, 2022 How might we understand the medium of video games beyond the static structures of encoded processes and audiovisual signifiers, and better articulate the ways that games meaningfully intervene in the lived space and time of individual players?
Moralde, Oscar John Arellano
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"Make it through with another point of view": landmarks to wayfind in gameworld [PDF]
, 2005 We address inconsistencies in applying theory on landmarks recalled from familiar physical worlds to progressive wayfinding unfamiliar gameworlds in situ.
Bidwell, Nicola J. +4 more
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Światowość EverQuestu: odkrywając dwudziestopierwszowieczną fikcję
Teksty Drugie, 2017 ‘You’re in our world now!’ has been the slogan for EverQuest since 2000. This article takes this quote literally by exploring what ‘being in a gameworld’ actually entails. Taking its point of departure in a more general discussion of online gameworlds as
Lisbeth Klastrup
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Soundscapes are a key aspect in video games. Addrich Mauch presents a new set of methods for ethnomusicological field research and game sound analysis in game spaces.
Mauch, Addrich
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Dead Rising and the Gameworld Zombie [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter investigates how the open-world game Dead Rising (Capcom 2006) uses zombies in its construction of the gameworld interface. Drawing on Weise’s (2009) research on ludic adaptations of the zombie and in particular his analysis of Dead Rising; as well as Jørgensen’s theory of gameworld interfaces (Jørgensen 2013a; 2013b; 2016), which ...
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