Moral game design of “This War of Mine”
Moral gameplay design benefits from extensive background research, external playtesting and iterative design.
The Popular Memory of Trench Warfare of WWI Is Often not Engaged in Video Games
Popular memory of WWI is something that video-games are scared to engage In his article “It’s Hard to Play in the Trenches: World War I, Collective Memory and Videogames”, Adam…
Access to play denied – or is it?
In order to play a game your body needs to adapt to the game’s interface. What about those bodies that can’t? In his article “Game Interfaces as Disabling Infrastructures” David…
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What Happens If We Make Gamification Customizable?
Pushing the envelope of gamification just a little bit more.
Following the footsteps of sex toys
To make gaming experience more pervasive, game controllers need to be redesigned to better include body to playing.
Pokémon Go Further
The global phenomenon Pokémon Go doesn’t use the full potential of pervasive gaming.
Narratives of Escape Rooms
Some escape rooms are experimenting with ways of bringing new genres into the scene In their article titled ’Escape Rooms and the Seductive Ubiquity of Capture’ published in Analog Game…
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The Almighty Protagonist as Unreliable Narrator: Narrative Concepts for Understanding Digital Games
Ways of telling stories can be highlighted through comparing narrative tools in videogames and literature.
Papers, Please succeeds in replicating Weber’s Iron Cage of Bureaucracy in Video Game Form
The depiction of bureaucracy in Papers, Please reflects the ideas of Max Weber. Glory to Arstotzka!
The Walking Dead, Telltale Games. Taken from Steam
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Quest for More Sophisticated Approach to Morality
Paragon or Renegade? When designing a game with complex moral themes, shades of grey trump black and white
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Decibels & Destruction: The Soundtrack of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Its Role in the Game
The soundtrack of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is much more than just palatable background noise.
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The Design of the Walker Game Experience
Alexander Muscat et al. explore the design themes that make up “walking simulators” or walker games.
Game pieces from JoLT’s News Park. (Source)
News (En)ga(ge)me(nt) Design
How to make journalism more engaging by applying approaches from serious game design?
Days Gone By: Nostalgia in Game Design
Nostalgia can rise from the most mundane things and drive players to explore.
Capitalism and Unfairness in Competitive Board Games
Games offer a good medium for critical reflection of social inequality.
Qu’est-ce que c’est un #GameJam?
Ideas, computers, friends, pizza and 48 hours to jam into one game #Game Design
Games, Art and Kant – What’s the connection?
How are games related to things such as art, philosophy, maxims and Kant’s Categorical Imperative?
Resident Evil’s rhetoric of corruption
How Resident Evil conveys horror through the rhetoric of corruption.#survivalhorror #residentevil