GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment
Special Issue: "Queer and Trans Game Studies in Global and Local Contexts"
Edited by Robin Zingarelli, Nicole Braida, Paolo D’Indinosante and Mark Maletska
Queer (Ruberg & Shaw, 2017) and trans game studies (Ruberg, 2022) have emerged as dynamic and growing fields of inquiry, investigating not only ...
“Everything is going to be okay”. Analysing emotional landscapes in Interactive Digital Narratives through the exploration of complex psychological themes in Omori
Leonardo Codamo (Politecnico di Milano) & Ludovica Rossi (Politecnico di Milano)
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Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) are a powerful medium to address complex psychological issues and societal challenges, offering users exposure to disruptive and counter-hegemonic perspectives. This analysis explores the role-playing game Omori, designed by OMOCAT in 2020, to illustrate ...
n.12/2024 – Transformative Games Revisited
GAME – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment
"Transformative Games Revisited"
Edited by Kristine Jørgensen, Doris C. Rusch, Astrid Ensslin, Riccardo Fassone
Games designed for a purpose beyond entertainment and recreation have a long history, spanning educational games, newsgames, and critical games. With the maturation of the medium, there has also been an emergence ...
Interactive Digital Narratives and Counter-Narratives. Systematising knowledge to derive clusters as lenses of observation
Ilaria Mariani (Politecnico di Milano), Mariana Ciancia (Politecnico di Milano), Judith Ackermann (Potsdam University of Applied Sciences)
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This paper delves into Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) as powerful artefacts for challenging dominant narratives and promoting inclusive storytelling. The study is based on a literature review of the research discourse on IDNs, ...
Trust, Confidence, and Hope in A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986: A Reparative Reading
Samuel Poirier-Poulin (Université de Montréal)
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Building on Sedgwick’s (1997) and Love’s (2010) reparative reading, this paper offers an analysis of the theme of trust and its variations (reluctance, confidence, intimacy, etc.) in the visual novel A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986 (Oracle & Bone, 2020). More specifically, it examines ...
These Routes are Just as Worthy if you Give Them a Chance Alternative discourses in (visual) novel games as a means to allow safe spaces of exploration
Laurie-Mei Ross Dionne (Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue), Fabienne Sacy (Université de Montréal) & Carl Therrien (Université de Montréal)
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Visual novels are known for their gameplay, which tends to be heavily focused on branching narratives, allowing players to experience many stories within the same world. We will explain how ...
Liminality, Embodiment, and Desire “Vulnerable you” and “Vulnerable I”
Leanne C. Taylor-Giles (Queensland University of Technology) & Jane Turner (School of Design, Queensland University of Technology)
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In this paper we revisit liminality as a threshold state and discuss the embodiment/immersion issue with relation to transitional objects in order to demonstrate opportunities in interactive digital narratives and video games ...
Playing with your research. Circulating narratives and cultivating audiences through text-based games
Jacob Euteneuer (Hampden-Sydney College)
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Interactive digital narratives (IDNs) created by academic researchers from STEM, humanities, and social science disciplines help spread important messages while developing scientific and media literacies. The affordances of digital games and IDNs allow researchers – in this study, undergraduate students – to think more deeply ...
Whose narrative is this? A character’s expression of Identity to counter a Hegemonic Narrative
Jonathan Barbara (Saint Martin’s Institute of Higher Education) & Mads Haahr (School of Statistics and Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin)
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As author-driven stories enter the realm of interactive narratives and provide interactors with freedom of choice in narrative paths and endings, this often happens at the character narrative’s expense. ...
G|A|M|E Issue 8, 2019 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Video Game Agency
Edited by Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung
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Cover Art: Down and Out in Los Santos (Alan Butler, 2015-2020) https://downandout.in-los-santos.com
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Vol. 2 – Critical notes (non-peer reviewed)
Jack Warren – Epistemology of the Werewolf: Epistemology of the Closet and the Queer Agency of One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Luca Papale & Russelline François – ...
G|A|M|E Issue 8, 2019 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Video Game Agency
Edited by Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung
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Cover Art: Down and Out in Los Santos (Alan Butler, 2015-2020) https://downandout.in-los-santos.com
Summary
Vol. 1 – Journal (peer-reviewed)
Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung – Introduction: “Would You Kindly?” The Interdisciplinary Trajectories of Video Game Agency
Frans Mäyrä: The Player as a Hybrid – Agency in Digital ...