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Lovecraftian Games: The Afterlife of Cthulhu on Valve's Steam Client 魔兽游戏在 Valve 的 Steam 客户端上体验《Cthulhu 的来世
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231217538
Prema Arasu
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Hey, You! The Importance of Pragmatics in Localizations of Mass Effect in French and Spanish 嘿，你！语用学在《质量效应》法语和西班牙语本地化中的重要性
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231218046
Alexander Stainton, Seán G. Roberts, Stephanie Rennick
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Fear of Monsters: Toward an Understanding of the Threat of the Computational Monster Read Through the Theoretical Lens of Game-Play 对怪物的恐惧:通过游戏玩法的理论视角解读计算怪物的威胁
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-13 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231211376
Lasse Juel Larsen, Bo Kampmann Walther
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Finish—Spare the Shame: Realism of Hellish Quart and Alt-Sarmatian Ideology 结束-不要羞耻:地狱夸脱的现实主义和新萨尔马西亚意识形态
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231210599
Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Magdalena Kozyra, Aleksandra Prokopek
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Becoming a Xia: Constructing Cultural Identity in the History of Wuxia Games in China 成为侠:中国武侠游戏史上的文化认同建构
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-05 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231208735
Tianming Cao, Hongya Zhou, Anqi Feng
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Ecocritical Agency in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 生态批评机构在我是一个十几岁的外来殖民者
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231209804
Sarah Freye
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Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming? 虚拟盟友:为何盟友关系对虚拟现实游戏的多元化至关重要?
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231208406
Danielle Deavours
{"title":"Virtual Allies: Why Allyship is Critical to Diversification of Virtual Reality Gaming?","authors":"Danielle Deavours","doi":"10.1177/15554120231208406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231208406","url":null,"abstract":"More attention is being brought to the identity challenges minority gamers face. However, as the gaming industry moves into virtual spaces and virtual reality (VR) gaming continues to grow in popularity, it is important to understand how identity and the virtual metaverse combine. Using a carnal autoethnography of a competitive woman VR gamer's lived experiences with sexism and misogyny over 6 months, this study explores how many women experience VR games as outsiders in a male-dominated space. Through the application of ambivalent sexism theory, this study shows virtual platform affordances can both help and harm minority gamers in their quest to be accepted in gaming communities. This study is among the first to examine gendered experience of VR gaming, especially from an autoethnographic frame, contributing to existing literature in women and gaming. This work calls on players, developers, educators, and research to emphasize allyship and media literacy to encourage more diverse virtual spaces.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135993823","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}
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Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time 美学、参与和叙事:时间约束作为ludo -叙事时间的表达器
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231206429
Cristian Parra Bravo
{"title":"Aesthetics, Engagement, and Narration: Temporal Constraint as an Articulator of Ludo-Narrative Time","authors":"Cristian Parra Bravo","doi":"10.1177/15554120231206429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231206429","url":null,"abstract":"Mechanics and narrations must be in the appropriate consonance to keep gamers engaged with the game; here is where time structures become crucial. Based on bibliographical revision and empiric observation, this work proposes the idea of temporal constraints as a concrete design variable that allows designers and researchers to measure and analyze how the game systems regulate progression time of players in the game. Temporal constraints are presented as a techno-aesthetic ludo-narrative component of video games; it combines the ludic and narrative aspects of the game. As a result, critical aspects of the new concept are clarified, and future research ideas are outlined.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136034032","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}
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The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games 通过历史电子游戏对集体记忆的技术调解
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231206862
Ștefania Matei
{"title":"The Technological Mediation of Collective Memory Through Historical Video Games","authors":"Ștefania Matei","doi":"10.1177/15554120231206862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231206862","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how genre-related procedural rhetorics might be employed in video games to (re)shape the way we think about history. The theoretical interpretation follows a postphenomenological line of inquiry in understanding how the sense of collective memory is shaped across playable environments. Through their medium-specific characteristics, historical video games define the nature of the representations through which history is brought to human experience and knowledge. However, collective memory should be understood neither as a process of recall nor as an aesthetics of historiophoty, but, rather, as a phenomenon of technological mediation: historical video games disclose the reality of the past as “a world to be remembered” and shape humans as “remembering subjects” in morally relevant ways. Therefore, video games based on history participate in the politics of remembrance and play a powerful role in the governance of mnemonic subjectivity by activating and reifying contingent norms of commemoration.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033328","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}
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The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in Dungeons & Dragons 桌与墓:《地下城》奇幻现实主义中跨权力与玩法的定位龙
2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231204145
PS Berge
{"title":"The Table and the Tomb: Positioning Trans Power and Play Amid Fantasy Realism in <i>Dungeons &amp; Dragons</i>","authors":"PS Berge","doi":"10.1177/15554120231204145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231204145","url":null,"abstract":"This article contends with the transphobic logics perpetuated by the “world's greatest roleplaying game,” Dungeons &amp; Dragons (D&amp;D). Bringing together game texts and scraped social media data from reactionary D&amp;D fans, I argue that despite cursory improvements in official representation, D&amp;D's hostility to trans play is inscribed in the game's engagement of fantasy realism—a culturally sculpted “common sense” that rearticulates the logics of established fantasy media. From sex-swap curses in Gygax's “Tomb of Horrors” (1978) to the shapechanging “blessed elves of Corellon” (2017), D&amp;D's approach to fantasy realism mechanically and narratively excludes trans bodies, vilifies trans stories, and diminishes trans power. Drawing on the work of analog game and trans media scholars, I use this case study to center trans power in tabletop gaming and explore D&amp;D's relationship with fantasy realism by asking Whose fantasy? and Whose reality?","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136063980","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}
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