Topical game research articles picked up and referenced by PlayLab! writers.

BioShock: Infinite, The Last of Us ja The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt -pelejä yhdistää väkivaltainen isyys, anti-isät ja erityislaatuiset tyttäret

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt haastaa isähahmojen patriarkaalisen auktoriteetin, toisin kuin BioShock ja the Last of Us.

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Dungeons & Dragons & Deleuze

In the article “Tabletop Role-Playing Games, the Modern Fantastic, and Analog ‘Realized’ Worlds”, first published in the 2016 “Role Playing Games” special issue of Analog Game Studies, Curtis Carbonell explores the expansive worlds of tabletop role-playing games as ‘realized’ worlds and their position in the discourse of posthumanism.

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Participants of FGJ Tampere 2015. (Source)

Finnish Game Jam Scene

Annakaisa Kultima, Kati Alha and Timo Nummenmaa, researchers at the University of Tampere, have coauthored a paper at the Academic Mindtrek 2016 that presents a case study of Finnish Game Jam and of the community built around it. Consisting of post-event surveys collected during 2010–2016 and statistics collected from the event participant registration forms, the study provides an overview of the Finnish Game Jam scene and some suggestions for fostering similar game development ecosystems with national support schemes.

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