A study that investigated different aspects of monetization in free-to-play games and approached it from an ethical point of view. How unethical is your free-to-play mobile game really?
The study examines how players' morality operating on an intuitive level affects and is affected by gameplay. The study looks at in-game choices corresponding to two tiers of moral judgement making.
Tony Rosqvist’s Scale of Morality is a method for exploration of Morality and Ethics in Video Games. It can be used to determine if a player’s ethics align with deontology, consequentialism, or a blending which gives Rule Consequentialism.
Zagal’s article focuses on some of the different ways that war is represented and portrayed in videogames
Transforming violence into meaningful struggle in multiplayer games #ethics #ganking #trash-talk #multiplayer