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TAKING PLAY SERIOUSLY, BUT NOT TOO SERIOUSLY: A REVIEW OF IAN BOGOST’S HOW TO TALK ABOUT VIDEOGAMES
by Jacob S. Euteneuer First published November 2016. Download full review PDF here. Ian Bogost. How to Talk about Videogames. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, 208 pp., ISBN 9780816699117. In the nascent but rapidly growing field of games criticism, there are few names larger than that of Ian Bogost. Starting with 2006’s Unit… Continue reading
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TURNING PIXELS INTO PEOPLE: PROCEDURAL EMBODIEDNESS AND THE AESTHETICS OF THIRD-PERSON CHARACTER CORPOREALITY
by Sky L. Anderson First published November 2016 Download full article PDF here. Abstract An aesthetic of corporeality pervades third-person action games—one of, if not the most popular—genres on video games. This aesthetic is unsurprising considering that the defining characteristic of third-person games is the near constant audio/visual/interactive presence of a digital body representing the… Continue reading
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SWIPE LEFT TO DETAIN: A PROCEDURAL COMPARISON BETWEEN TINDER AND PAPERS, PLEASE
by Ian K. Derk First published November 2016 Download full article PDF here. Abstract This paper will compare Tinder, a mobile dating application, to Papers, Please, a video game simulating a checkpoint. The purpose of this paper is to find relevant and subtle similarities in function between two dissimilar applications released within relative close proximity.… Continue reading
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ISSN: 2374-202X
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