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71	Video Game Play and Apparatus Champlin, Alexander Doran 11 July 2012 (has links) No description available. American Studies Communication Film Studies Mass Media Video Game Videogame Apparatus Game Studies Gaming Play Interactivity Cinema Film Studies Interface Technology
72	Playing/Writing: Connecting Video Games, Learning, and Composition Rutherford, Kevin J. 13 August 2010 (has links) No description available. Composition Education Educational Software Rhetoric Teaching games video games metal gear interactive fiction serious games oiligarchy composition writing pedagogy game studies
73	Konstverket i spelmiljö : En undersökning av spelet Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) användande av konstverk och presentation av museet som institution / The Artwork in the Age of Game Environment : A study of the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) usage of artwork and presentation of the museum as an institution Holmdahl Arnman, Thea January 2020 (has links) This essay focuses on the digitalization of art canonisation in the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo/Nintendo EPD, 2020). Furthermore, the purpose of this essay is to understand which artworks the game incorporates in its museum, as well as how the player can interact with the artworks in question. Bolter and Grusin's remediation theory are thoroughly explored through the material, as well as the maintaining of norms through representation. The conclusion is that the game allows the player to interact restrictedly with the art in the museum, but is allowed more freedom outside of it. However, the restricted interaction is strongly incorporating known norms of how to behave and interact with the museum as an institution. These norms are also applicable in situ – outside of the museum's pixelated world. The aura of the artworks is compromised through the notion that the player can obtain any number of original artworks. Still, the originality and aura of the artworks are secured through the institutionalised environment in the museum. / Uppsatsen behandlar digitaliserad konsts kanonisering i spelet Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo/Nintendo EPD, 2020). Uppsatsens syften är att analysera vilka konstverk som spelet integrerar i sitt museum och hur dessa verk kategoriseras, samt hur spelaren kan interagera med konstverken. Bolter och Grusins remedieringsteorier behandlas utifrån denna frågeställning med fokus på digitalisering och konstrepresentation. Slutsatsen är att spelarens interaktion med konstverken på det digitala museet är begränsad, men att spelaren får mer frihet i spelets andra miljöer. Således följs etablerade konventioner kring hur besökaren på ett museum ska bete sig. Konstverkens aura förändras då spelaren kan inneha hur många originalverk som helst. Trots denna omdefinierade aura stärks däremot verkens originalitet av museets institutionaliserade och auktoritära presentation. digitalization art canon art historical canon mediation remediation convergence culture participatory culture representation aura reproduction game games video games game studies animal crossing animal crossing: new horizons digitalisering kulturkanon mediering remediering konvergenskultur deltagarkultur representation bildanalys aura reproduktionsåldern spel spelstudier game studies animal crossing animal crossing: new horizons Art History Konstvetenskap
74	Repeating Despite Repulsion: The Freudian Uncanny in Psychological Horror Games Jespersdotter Högman, Julia January 2021 (has links) This thesis explores the diverse and intricate ways the psychological horror game genre can characterise a narrative by blurring the boundaries of reality and imagination in favour of storytelling. By utilising the Freudian uncanny, four video game fictions are dissected and analysed to perceive whether horror needs a narrative to be engaging and pleasurable. A discussion will also be made if video game fictions should be considered in the literary field or its own, and how it compares to written fiction in terms of interactivity, engagement, and immersion. literature game studies video game studies sigmund freud the uncanny english english literature literature studies english studies video game fiction written fiction silent hill cry of fear psychological horror horror horror games psychological horror games outlast P.T. games narrative narrative games linear horror games story games General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap
75	La stratégie comme processus cognitif dans le jeu vidéo StarCraft Dor, Simon 08 1900 (has links) Pour respecter les droits d’auteur, la version électronique de ce mémoire a été dépouillée de ses documents visuels et audio‐visuels. La version intégrale du mémoire a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. / Cette recherche propose une analyse du jeu de stratégie en temps réel StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998). Il s’agit de questionner le concept de stratégie dans le jeu sans s’en tenir à ce qu’on peut voir et entendre. Ce mémoire débute sur une description du jeu en détails afin de faire ressortir comment la stratégie joue un rôle dans l’ensemble des compétences qui y sont mobilisées. Ensuite, le cercle heuristique du processus stratégique offre une modélisation du fonctionnement de la stratégie en tant que processus cognitif, basé sur les états du jeu inférés chez le joueur et sur ses plans stratégiques. Ce modèle et les concepts qui en découlent sont consolidés par des analyses de parties spécifiques de StarCraft. / This thesis offers an analysis of the Real-Time Strategy game StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998). Its goal is to explore beyond the visible and audible part of the game to elucidate the concept of strategy into play. Following a description of the game and its constraints, it demonstrates how strategy plays a major role within the skills needed to play. Then, our “heuristic circle of the strategic process” describes how strategy works as a cognitive process, and how it interacts with both the game states inferred by the player and his or her strategic plans. Finally, this model and its underlying concepts are supported by close analyses of StarCraft game sequences. StarCraft Jeux de stratégie en temps réel Stratégie Théories cognitives Études du jeu vidéo Jeux vidéo Real-time strategy games Strategy Cognitive theory Video game studies Video games
76	L'exploration de la ruine post-apocalyptique vidéoludique comme créatrice de mémoire et d'émotions Dion, Bruno 04 1900 (has links) Pour respecter les droits d’auteur, la version électronique de ce mémoire a été dépouillée de certains documents visuels et audio‐visuels. La version intégrale du mémoire a été déposée à la Division de la gestion des documents et des archives. / Cette recherche propose une analyse de la figure de la ruine post-apocalyptique dans le jeu vidéo. Il s’agit de questionner les effets de cette figure sur la construction d’une mémoire du lieu vidéoludique exploré, ainsi que ceux sur la formation d’émotions. Ce mémoire débute par une mise en contexte et la définition des différents concepts de base que nous utiliserons, tels la ruine, les utopies et l’apocalypse. Ensuite, nous procédons à une analyse de la formation d’une mémoire d’un lieu vidéoludique et des effets des ruines post-apocalyptiques représentées sur ce processus, le tout appuyé par une étude de notre corpus : Bastion, Journey et Fallout 3. Finalement, nous faisons le même cheminement afin d’analyser la formation d’émotions en réaction aux différents éléments de design qui forment les ruines post-apocalyptiques dans les jeux observés. / This research proposes an analysis of post-apocalyptic ruins in video games. We will question the effects of this figure on the creation of a memory based on the explored space and on the formation of emotions. This thesis will begin by establishing the context of our definitions and the different concepts we will be using throughout, such as ruins, utopias and the apocalypse. We will then analyse the creation of a memory based on a videogame space and the effects of the represented post-apocalyptic ruins on the process, all of this backed up by a study of our corpus: Bastion, Journey and Fallout 3. In the last part, we will do a similar work to analyse the formation of emotions in reaction to the different design elements that constitute the observed games. Bastion Journey Fallout 3 Ruine Ruin Utopie Utopia Apocalypse Post-apocalypse Mémoire Memory Émotions Emotions Études du jeu vidéo Video game studies Jeu vidéo Videogames
77	Worldbuilding in Feminist Game Studies: Toward a Methodology of Disruption Bianca Batti (6622946) 10 June 2019 (has links) <div>This project engages in an intersectional and interdisciplinary tracing of the emerging field of feminist game studies and the epistemologies and methodologies that exist within this field. Through such tracing, this project asks—what are feminist game studies’ epistemological goals and frameworks? What methodologies can the field draw from in order to achieve these epistemological goals? Ultimately, this project argues that feminist game studies enacts an epistemology of feminist worldbuilding—that is, an inclusive, embodied, space-claiming mode of producing knowledge—and achieves this worldbuilding through methodologies of intersectional disruption in order to perform disruptive feminist interventions into video game culture. </div><div><br></div><div>In the first chapter of this project, I make use of a methodology of narrative autoethnography to discuss my experience with online harassment as an inroad into interrogating the bodies at risk in gaming spaces in order to make a case for the need for feminist interventions to disrupt the violent structures within video game culture. The second chapter traces the ways hegemonic, patriarchal frameworks in game studies epistemologically deprivilege material, representational analyses of bodies and culture in the study of games and, instead, argues for the implementation of intersectional approaches to video game culture. The third chapter maps the intersectional feminist methodologies that can be implemented in feminist game studies in order to perform generative and disruptive interventions into video game culture and build feminist worlds. </div><div><br></div><div>In the fourth chapter, I apply some of these methodologies of disruption to the alienation of mothers in the gaming industry’s workplace culture and representations of mothers in the games Among the Sleep and Horizon Zero Dawn in order to intervene into video game culture’s prejudicial attitudes regarding labor, mothers, and women. The final chapter continues my autoethnographic work through the connection of my experiences with online harassment to previous experiences with gendered violence and trauma in order to underscore the stakes of feminist game studies praxis. In all these ways, I argue that feminist game studies builds worlds by performing interventions into video game culture through intersectional and pluralistic methodologies of disruption, for such methodologies imagine new, inclusive models of existence and futurity in video game culture.</div> Culture, Gender, Sexuality Screen and Media Culture Epistemology Feminist Theory Visual Cultures feminist game studies methodologies intersectionality video game culture feminist worldbuilding online harassment
78	Gränser av hud, glänsande kroppar och längtan : En queer närspelning av Mass Effect 3 Reventlid, Amanda January 2013 (has links) This essay aims to examine how the synthetic non-human subjects, EDI and Legion, are constituted in terms of their bodies, gender, desire and emotion, in the gaming series Mass Effect. In a close-gaming method I also want to explore in which way the gamer can effect or even change the expressions of the body, gender, desire, and emotion made by the synthetic non-human subjects. In order to do this I use Judith Butlers and Sara Ahmeds queer theory, and Donna Haraways cyborg feminism. I concluded that EDI embraces her embodiments and is given a highly sexualized female body, being more of a woman than a machine. While Legion is rather embracing disembodiment and is given a non sexualized, androgynous male body, being more of a machine than a man. The gamer can decide whether EDI should have a romance with a human in the game or not, but the gamer cannot in the same way decide whether or not Legions and EDIs subjectivity will be recognized as human subjectivity or at least almost-human subjectivity. Mass Effect body gender desire emotion queer theory cyber/cyborg feminism legitimacy non-human subjectivity humanity game studies close-playing Mass Effect kropp genus begär känsla queerteori cyber/cyborgfeminism legitimitet icke-mänskliga subjekt det mänskliga spelforskning närspelning
79	La stratégie comme processus cognitif dans le jeu vidéo StarCraft Dor, Simon 08 1900 (has links) Cette recherche propose une analyse du jeu de stratégie en temps réel StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998). Il s’agit de questionner le concept de stratégie dans le jeu sans s’en tenir à ce qu’on peut voir et entendre. Ce mémoire débute sur une description du jeu en détails afin de faire ressortir comment la stratégie joue un rôle dans l’ensemble des compétences qui y sont mobilisées. Ensuite, le cercle heuristique du processus stratégique offre une modélisation du fonctionnement de la stratégie en tant que processus cognitif, basé sur les états du jeu inférés chez le joueur et sur ses plans stratégiques. Ce modèle et les concepts qui en découlent sont consolidés par des analyses de parties spécifiques de StarCraft. / This thesis offers an analysis of the Real-Time Strategy game StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998). Its goal is to explore beyond the visible and audible part of the game to elucidate the concept of strategy into play. Following a description of the game and its constraints, it demonstrates how strategy plays a major role within the skills needed to play. Then, our “heuristic circle of the strategic process” describes how strategy works as a cognitive process, and how it interacts with both the game states inferred by the player and his or her strategic plans. Finally, this model and its underlying concepts are supported by close analyses of StarCraft game sequences. / Pour respecter les droits d’auteur, la version électronique de ce mémoire a été dépouillée de ses documents visuels et audio‐visuels. La version intégrale du mémoire a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. StarCraft Jeux de stratégie en temps réel Stratégie Théories cognitives Études du jeu vidéo Jeux vidéo Real-time strategy games Strategy Cognitive theory Video game studies Video games
80	Geographies of the underworld: the poetics of chthonic embodiment and game worlds Fletcher, Kathryn DeWitt 30 June 2008 (has links) A concept of underworld runs through many cultures. These realms of spirits and the dead generally share several key characteristics, despite their varied and separate traditions. The commonalities among these different mythological places make it possible to generalize certain characteristics as chthonic for descriptive and analytical purposes. The underworld has appeared widely in video games throughout their history. I argue that the remarkable prevalence reflects a formal relationship between the underworld and video games; specific elements in mythic underworlds comprise a chthonic poetics that resonates with video game worlds and affordances. Video games uniquely support the spatial, thematic, and narrative elements that characterize underworlds and the philosophical questions they engage. Embodiment binds these elements together; they are unintelligible without this core perspective. The body sits at the axis of experience in mythic underworlds like the one described by Dante in the Divine Comedy and in game worlds like the one in World of Warcraft. It provides the medium through which we can experience these simulations as worlds rather than mere information structures. Other formal elements give context and direction to that embodied experience, and exploring how these interact with embodiment can expand our understanding of chthonic embodiment and the experience of space in virtual worlds. Three primary forces acting on the agency, subjectivity and control of the body structure that experience, which in turn reflects the ways of being that emerge from chthonic contexts. By incorporating these forces into their gameplay and narrative structure, games provide more direct access to the mythic power associated with the underworld than previous media forms. Video game studies WoW World of Warcraft Space Avatar Multiplayer MMO Phenomenology Myth Virtual Dante Inferno Purgatory Divine Comedy Digital media Dead Mythology Dead Folklore Spirits Mythology Video games Spatial behavior

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