Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)

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Natalie J. Swain
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Abstract

This paper demonstrates that through video game mechanics and internal narrative elements, Horizon Zero Dawn employs Greek mythology to encourage a perspective shift in the player who comes to inhabit the protagonist, Aloy's, worldview. While inhabiting Aloy, an outcast within her own storyworld, Horizon Zero Dawn subtly subscribes to the tenets of standpoint theory which privilege the perspective of the marginalized, and encourages the player to employ Lugones’ “world”-traveling, a skill in which marginalized knowers particularly excel. Horizon Zero Dawn thus engages with Greek mythology and uses the connection that is built between player and avatar to encourage the transcendence of the player situation and to employ Lugones’ “world”-travel in order to respectfully and lovingly engage with others, both within and without the game's storyworld.
机器之神,机器之神:盖亚/盖亚/全母和卢戈内斯的“世界”——《地平线:黎明时分》(2017)
通过电子游戏机制和内部叙事元素,《地平线:零之黎明》采用了希腊神话来鼓励玩家转变视角,让他们进入主角Aloy的世界观。《地平线:黎明破晓》居住在Aloy(游戏邦注:Aloy是一个被遗弃在自己的故事世界中的人)中,巧妙地认同了立场理论的原则,即赋予边缘人特权,并鼓励玩家使用Lugones的“世界”旅行技能,这是边缘人特别擅长的技能。因此,《地平线:黎明时分》融入了希腊神话,并利用玩家和角色之间的联系来鼓励玩家超越情境,并利用Lugones的“世界”旅行,以便在游戏故事世界内外与他人进行尊重和友爱的互动。
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期刊介绍: Games and Culture publishes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within the context of interactive media. The journal serves as a premiere outlet for groundbreaking and germinal work in the field of game studies. The journal"s scope includes the sociocultural, political, and economic dimensions of gaming from a wide variety of perspectives, including textual analysis, political economy, cultural studies, ethnography, critical race studies, gender studies, media studies, public policy, international relations, and communication studies.
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