Tag: Mass Effect
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Performing and Pretending for The Audience of One: Role-Playing in Single-Player Games
What are the affordances and restrictions the digital single-player role-playing games impose on the gamer? The study explores the different ways the player can use the game as a complex toy with multiple affordances to play pretend with.
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Exploring attachment towards non-player characters in the Mass Effect series
Non-player characters can evoke trust, even love, Tali and Garrus of the Mass Effect series more than many others. Are you Shepard or the player?
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Sidetracking: A Rant on Optional Missions
The struggle to find meaningful experiences amongst a sea of fetch quests “Can you help me find my sword? I dropped it in a cave while I was searching for treasure and a band of goblins attacked me!” Sound familiar? It has happened to us so many times – While it falls on us, the…