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Aesthetics of Agency and the Rhythm of Gameplay 代理美学和玩法节奏
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231185630
Johan Kalmanlehto
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Top Shelf Drinks, Bottom Line Play: Examining Representations of Class in Bartending and Mixology Games. 顶级货架饮料，底线游戏:检视调酒和调酒游戏中的阶级表征。
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/15554120221119962
Scott DeJong, Courtney Blamey
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Why and How to Define Educational Video Games? 如何定义教育类电子游戏?
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231183495
Caitlin Cole, Roberto Hernan Parada, Erin Mackenzie
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Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives 玩家只是想要获得乐趣?享乐主义与享乐主义博弈动机的探索性考察
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231182498
Daniel Possler, R. Daneels, N. Bowman
{"title":"Players Just Want to Have Fun? An Exploratory Survey on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Game Motives","authors":"Daniel Possler, R. Daneels, N. Bowman","doi":"10.1177/15554120231182498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231182498","url":null,"abstract":"Research has shown that seeking fun and enjoyment (i.e., hedonic reasons) motivates playing digital games. However, recent scholarship revealed that gaming also evokes eudaimonic entertainment experiences, such as meaningfulness and being moved. Yet, it is unclear whether players turn to games to have such eudaimonic experiences. Hence, the present study explored potential eudaimonic gaming motives in an online survey among fans ( N = 894) of five yet-to-be-released games. Specifically, it was examined whether eudaimonic motives, derived from gaming research and scholarship in positive psychology, complement an existing scale measuring gaming motives. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (split-half method) demonstrated that “Eudaimonia” represents a distinct reason to play—alongside the well-known motives of “Absorption” and “Social Interaction.” Moreover, the Eudaimonia motive for using the five games was positively related to general eudaimonic orientations in life and trait-like eudaimonic game preferences. The results suggest that digital gaming may also be eudaimonically motivated.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89978654","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
“How is it that Someone Like You: paragon, Damn Near Saint; Could Love this World so Damn Much but No One in It?”: Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy and the Disruption of Hetero-Amatonormative Benevolent Sexism in Female-led Games “为什么像你这样的人:典范，近乎圣人;你能如此爱这个世界却没有人吗?:《地平线:零之黎明》的忠诚以及女性主导游戏中异性恋-非正统的仁慈性别歧视的破坏
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-24 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231179511
M. Allen
{"title":"“How is it that Someone Like You: paragon, Damn Near Saint; Could Love this World so Damn Much but No One in It?”: Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy and the Disruption of Hetero-Amatonormative Benevolent Sexism in Female-led Games","authors":"M. Allen","doi":"10.1177/15554120231179511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231179511","url":null,"abstract":"While recent data from the Entertainment Software Association indicates there is close to a 50/50 split in gender identification of gamers between men and women, the environment created by stereotypical depictions of women in games as well as negative community interactions continue creating a hostile environment for women who identify as gamers. Since the 2010s, the presence of female playable characters in major studio games began to appear with polarized reception. Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and Horizon Forbidden West (2022) require players to assume the role of Aloy, a female machine hunter and outcast without a male playable character option. Using Glick and Fiske’s concept of benevolent sexism and the three frames outlined in Schröter and Thon’s video game narrative analysis framework (narrative, ludic, and social), Aloy's narrative was analyzed to highlight how it disrupts amatonormative benevolent sexism in female-led games.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72514794","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
Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game 变种人和僵尸无处不在!《恶棍、暴力和自私:后世界末日电子游戏中的人性问题
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231182802
Philly Wintle
{"title":"Mutants and Zombies Everywhere! Or Villains, Violence, and Selfishness: Questions of Humanity in the Post-apocalyptic (Pandemic) Video Game","authors":"Philly Wintle","doi":"10.1177/15554120231182802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231182802","url":null,"abstract":"The post-apocalyptic environment has been popular in video games for many decades—from nuclear fallout to alien invasions, there is a fascination with the decline of mankind. This article looks, in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, at the depiction of failing and inhuman worlds in video games about pandemics. The environments in games such as Bioshock (2007), Left 4 Dead (2008, 2009), and The Last of Us (2013), are unflinchingly cruel, often depicting humans (and the player) as selfish entities seeking only self-survival. These environments are destructively violent, and, although the player is often surrounded by ‘mutants', these worlds are also oppressively lonely. This article looks at the fears reflected in pre-Covid-19 pandemic video games and what they say about our world, offering a retrospective view now we are living through a global pandemic perhaps not so different from those found in these games.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78726151","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: 1
Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism 电子竞技不能用资本主义战胜同性恋恐惧症
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-18 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231181462
Samantha Close
{"title":"Esports Cannot Defeat Homophobia With Capitalism","authors":"Samantha Close","doi":"10.1177/15554120231181462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231181462","url":null,"abstract":"Esports, competitive video gaming, is an emerging media industry looking to legitimize itself on the global stage. Part of its efforts include addressing a culture widely perceived as toxic. Toxic gamer culture claims hegemonic masculinity by degrading any seen as feminine, such as women and queer men; while this problem is endemic to gaming, it is particularly virulent in esports due to its struggles to be recognized as a “real” sport. The methods esports authorities have deployed to combat patriarchal homophobia, however, are insufficient. They share much with an anti-queer respectability politics that reinscribes the market as the ultimate cultural authority. An alternative approach would be one based on the principles of transformative justice, which emphasizes the humanity of both perpetrators and victims while demanding perpetrators take responsibility for the harm they cause. Transformative justice has already proved viable in game live-streaming, as seen by AnyKey's GLHF initiative.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82261183","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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Playing with Character: A Framework of Characterization in Video Games 玩角色:电子游戏中的人物塑造框架
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-08 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231179496
Alexander Vandewalle, S. Malliet, K. Demoen
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It's Not Always About You: The Subject and Ecological Entanglement in Video Games 不总是关于你:电子游戏的主题和生态纠葛
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-04 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231179261
Nicky Heijmen, J. Vervoort
{"title":"It's Not Always About You: The Subject and Ecological Entanglement in Video Games","authors":"Nicky Heijmen, J. Vervoort","doi":"10.1177/15554120231179261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231179261","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of a global ecological crisis, culturally dominant framings of subjective experience as separate from living ecologies are no longer sufficient. Games might offer ways to break down these divisions. Alenda Chang has proposed bringing game ecologies to life. To complement her position, in this paper, we aim to inspire game designers and researchers to explore ways in which video games can remodel the perceived player subject as a pathway to ecological entanglement. We investigate four strategies for decentering and deconstructing the subject. These are: (1) deconstructing the subject to foreground internal sources of entanglement; (2) dismantling, distorting, ignoring, and/or invading the visual perspective; (3) conceptual deconstruction and reframing of a sense of self; and (4) decentering the subject through shifting contexts. For each of these, we introduce relevant examples of narrative and gameplay design in existing video games and suggest steps for further development in each direction.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81180845","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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Geographical Aspects of Open-World Video Games 开放世界电子游戏的地理因素分析
IF 2.8 2区 文学
Games and Culture Pub Date : 2023-06-04 DOI: 10.1177/15554120231178871
P. Fraile-Jurado
{"title":"Geographical Aspects of Open-World Video Games","authors":"P. Fraile-Jurado","doi":"10.1177/15554120231178871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231178871","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, open-world environments in video games have become increasingly popular and immersive. Millions of players are able to explore virtual landscapes that resemble the real world, yet significant differences exist. This study investigates the geographical accuracy of 15 open-world video games. The virtual landscapes in these games were analyzed for horizontal distance compression, increased slopes, idealized climate, simplified vegetation and water features, underpopulation, and spatial segregation of ethnic minorities. The findings show significant differences between the games in terms of their geographical accuracy, with some exhibiting a more realistic representation of the natural and cultural environment compared to others. This study sheds light on the relationship between virtual landscapes in video games and our perception of the real world, offering new insights into this rapidly growing field.","PeriodicalId":12634,"journal":{"name":"Games and Culture","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88524363","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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