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Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages 新闻游戏:大众媒体使用数字游戏来传达新闻信息
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/15554120221105461
S. Gómez-García, Teresa de la Hera Conde-Pumpido
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引用次数: 3
Behind the Scenes at ApertureScience.com: Portal and Its Paratexts. ApertureScience.com的幕后:门户和它的文本。
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/15554120221106927
Alan Galey
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引用次数: 0
Making Complexity Measurable in Practice: A Formal Analysis of Gamble-Play media 使复杂性在实践中可测量:对游戏媒体的形式分析
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231175615
Maarten Denoo, Bruno Dupont, B. Zaman, Eva Grosemans, S. Malliet
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引用次数: 1
Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of Pathfinder 黑色游戏语言描述中的符号暴力:以《探路者》为例
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231176630
Steven Dashiell
{"title":"Symbolic Violence in the Language of Game Descriptions of Blackness: The Case of <i>Pathfinder</i>","authors":"Steven Dashiell","doi":"10.1177/15554120231176630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231176630","url":null,"abstract":"The present article analyzes the impact of discourses surrounding Black ethnicities in tabletop role playing games. I use discursive thematic analysis to examine the descriptions of individuals represented as Black in the Pathfinder game setting, a game system related to Dungeons &amp; Dragons. I critically analyze descriptions in the game materials that discuss in-game Black ethnicities. I demonstrate how the discourse represents a symbolic violence surrounding blackness. While the descriptions provide imagery and word use to highlight the positive aspects of the characters, the overemphasis signals stereotypes of a conceptual “other.” These characters then become examples of “good Blacks” that differ from “bad” individuals. The positive imagery provokes a stereotype threat, and a need to uphold this “good Black” mentality, lest one becomes the Other. While thinking of race and ethnicity in tabletop gaming continues to evolve, even advancements fall into tropes which reinforce symbolic violence.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135642742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Video Games as Social Institutions 作为社会机构的电子游戏
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231177479
Dragoș-Mihai Obreja
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引用次数: 0
Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education 创造性，技术性，企业家精神:游戏开发中的形成张力
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231176874
B. Keogh, Taylor Hardwick
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引用次数: 0
Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why 走向表现的充分性:《告诉我为什么》中跨性别表现的批判性分析
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231176634
John McLaren
{"title":"Towards Representational Adequacy: A Critical Analysis of Transgender Representation in Tell Me Why","authors":"John McLaren","doi":"10.1177/15554120231176634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231176634","url":null,"abstract":"While transgender representation in media has improved in quantity over the last decade, the representation of transgender men in video games is still limited. In this work, I examine the character Tyler from the game Tell Me Why as a critical case study toward the representational adequacy of transgender people in video games. Through a focus on character design, narrative, paratexts, and game reception, I explore the ways Tyler is a more complex example of transgender representation. Additionally, I argue that the act of bringing transgender people into character creation results in a more complex representation.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89477690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Ludic Mechanics, Psychic Mechanisms and Explorations of “Inner Space” in Mindwheel and Psychonauts 《Mindwheel》和《Psychonauts》的游戏机制、心理机制和“内在空间”探索
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-17 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231172614
Robert L. Mayo
{"title":"Ludic Mechanics, Psychic Mechanisms and Explorations of “Inner Space” in Mindwheel and Psychonauts","authors":"Robert L. Mayo","doi":"10.1177/15554120231172614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231172614","url":null,"abstract":"Robert Pinsky's Mindwheel (1984) and Tim Schafer's Psychonauts (2005) are dissimilar games in terms of player interface and ludic mechanics, but both participate in the creative tradition of “inner space,” which begins in science fiction literature and depicts the human mind metaphorically as a physical space which can be explored and interacted with. This essay examines how each game contributes to this tradition, with particular attention to how the mechanics of each game develops an adversarial or cooperative tone to the player's interaction with the game, and how this produces different forms of inner space exploration. This essay also draws on Lakoff's and Johnson's concept of “orientational metaphors” which are familiar from embodied experience and various conventional expressions, and examines how coherent each game's metaphors and narratives are.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75725390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077 失信营销。电子游戏记者和开发者的关系、沟通策略和道德:以《赛博朋克2077》为例
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231173479
Piotr Siuda, Dariusz Reguła, Jakub Majewski, Anna Kwapiszewska
{"title":"Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers: The Case of Cyberpunk 2077","authors":"Piotr Siuda, Dariusz Reguła, Jakub Majewski, Anna Kwapiszewska","doi":"10.1177/15554120231173479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231173479","url":null,"abstract":"Cyberpunk 2077 's negative reception stood in striking contrast to the pre-release hype around the video game built by the producer's marketing campaign and the gaming press. This study examines a selection of gaming websites, to consider their pre-release Cyberpunk 2077 coverage and the discrepancies between these early reports and the released game. Using inductive conventional content analysis, framed as thematic analysis, 148 press articles were investigated divided into nine subcategories, and three categories. These articles told an almost exclusively positive narrative, promising great performance and features. The uncritical reception of publisher information by journalists allows the authors to propose the notion of “broken promises marketing”. The article contextualizes this term in the gaming ecosystem, arguing that over-optimistic marketing is amplified through features of the online press ecology. Finally, the results are considered from a business ethics perspective, with a set of communications recommendations for both journalists and game publishers.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83343540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
A Transfiguration Paradigm for Quest Design 任务设计的变形范例
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-05-07 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231170152
Steven Harris, N. Caldwell
{"title":"A Transfiguration Paradigm for Quest Design","authors":"Steven Harris, N. Caldwell","doi":"10.1177/15554120231170152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231170152","url":null,"abstract":"Quest design is an important design aspect of video games. The current approach to quest design is dominated by a task-orientated paradigm in which a quest is viewed as a series of tasks to be completed as part of the narrative structure of the game. This paper presents an alternative paradigm that shifts away from the predominant task-based approach to quest design. Based on a study of existing quest models, a dual quest framework of singular and synergy quests is proposed. Within the frameworks, tasks become an intermediary step within the quest which is now focused on the transfiguration of the player character. This approach offers a practical design structure for both procedural and manual quest design.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86341255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
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