Game studies

Learning happens everywhere but where and how you learn make all the difference. With increasingly ubiquitous technology in schools, it is imperative that educational leaders must select the right device for teaching and learning. The right learning framework suitable for the student's grade level will activate their new pedagogical priorities and create their own artifacts of learning. This paper presents a comparative analysis between computer game-based learning and mobile game-based learning as the learning framework in Preschool Education in the Philippine setting when delivering effective digital game-based learning. A technical comparison was made to ascertain the implications of the selected learning medium in DGBL. The study was then evaluated based on the device assessment of the pupils covering various aspects such as availability, technical adequacy, usability, preference, enjoyment, and game repository. Another evaluation was made with regards to the learning criter...

For over six years, Hollow Knight: Silksong has not simply been a video game. It has transcended its nature as an entertainment product to become a cultural myth, an almost religious symbol of expectation and hope for a global community. A wait that lasted 1,692 days, according to the meticulous count of a fan channel, a period during which the silence of the developers of Team Cherry created a deafening void. This void has not remained such; It was filled with a collective energy that turned anticipation into a phenomenon in its own right.

Seit Start des Studiengangs im Jahr 2013, haben uber 55 Absolvent*innen den Bachelorabschluss Motologie an der Hochschule Emden / Leer erreicht. Kontinuierliche Gesprache mit den Studierenden und Absolvent*innen im sog. »Jour Fixe« und schriftliche Befragungen im Studienverlauf und zwei Jahre nach Abschluss des Studiums ermoglichten es, den Studiengang noch passgenauer fur die Praxis und Theorie der Motolog*innen zu gestalten. [...]

Playing video games has become one of the largest leisure activities in the world. This study examines the effects video games have on college students, their grade point averages, time management, and study habits. Existing literature has linked video game usage as being negatively correlated with each of these three variables. This research, using a sample of the undergraduate student population at a private university in northeast Ohio, found a statistically significant correlation between video game usage and grade point average. Statistically significant relationships were not found between video game usage and the variables of time management skills or study habits. It is important that college students are aware of these possible negative effects of video game usage on their academic performance. This research can serve as a foundation for future research on the impact of video game playing and student performance.

Public debates around video games and violence tend to be overwhelmingly focused on realistic attacks on bleeding, screaming, undeniable humans in a small number of blockbuster games. This essay seeks to open new possibilities for ethical reflection on video games by considering, instead, why games full of destroyable enemies of a somewhat less human sort are often engaged as uncontroversial family-friendly entertainment. This study opens with a brief historical analysis of enemies and gamers as conceptual pillars of video game culture. The strange entity I identify as the gamer/enemy dyad is then refracted through George Bataille and Giorgio Agamben to consider how some of its tendencies could become exempt from moral critique. This frame is then used to examine 50 games created for Christian players, a market well identified by a collective desire to enjoy family-friendly games, to discover what sorts of enemies these games include and what can be done to them. The result, finally...

Diversos estudos apontam para o potencial das mídias enquanto contadoras de histórias como uma importante característica de sua comunicação. Os games, entretanto, por se tratarem de um suporte essencialmente de entretenimento, muitas vezes tornam difícil a percepção do conteúdo a partir do qual suas tramas se originam. Tais tramas, entretanto, podem ser baseadas em conceitos muito profundos e mesmo ancestrais, como no caso dos jogos da franquia “Prince of Persia”. A origem do conteúdo desse jogo vem passando por várias releituras em diferentes mídias ao longo de sua existência, onde os games serão apenas uma delas. Palavras-chave: games; remidiação; orientalismo. Several studies point to media's role as story teller as one of its strongest assets as communication tool. Games, on the other hand, as an entertainment support, have often made harder to see the base contents of their plots. Those plots, nevertheless, might be based in deep, even ancient, concepts which is the case o...

This article analyses the player–avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player–interviews and fan writing. It argues that the avatar is a two-part structure, partly designed in conventional narrative terms as a protagonist of popular narrative, and partly as a vehicle for interactive game-play. The former structure is replete with the traditions and designs of Japanese popular narrative, oral formulaic narrative and contemporary superhero narratives, and is presented to the player as an offer act – a declarative narrative statement. The latter is a construct of evolving attributes and economies characteristic of role-playing games; and is presented to the player as a demand act – a rule-based command. Though these two functions separate out in the grammar of player and fan discourse, it is their integration which provides the pleasure of gameplay and narrative engagement.

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Dans son essai Photographie et cinéma d’animation : états d’hybridité, Florence Le Blanc s’intéresse aux interactions fertiles entre ces deux médiums. En survolant plusieurs films québécois récents et plus anciens, elle met en lumière un état d’hybridité qui, selon elle, redéfinit les codes de la fiction. Elle souligne aussi la manière dont ces œuvres redonnent à la photographie une présence matérielle, en contraste avec la dématérialisation propre à notre époque numérique.

Francisco; VOSKUIL, Anne Karin; PAPARAZZO, Nicolás y TORRES, Diego. Una wiki semántica para las artes escénicas. Conceptos e implementación de la plataforma colaborativa Nodos IZETA, Andrés Darío y CATTÁNEO, Roxana. ¿Es posible una arqueología digital en Argentina? Un acercamiento desde la práctica

O intervalo de tempo entre a gestacao e os tres anos de vida e crucial para o desenvolvimento de um individuo. Alem de ser o periodo de producao de neuronios, as experiencias vividas nessa fase ajudam a moldar os circuitos e a arquitetura do cerebro, estruturando formas de pensar, agir e sentir. A finalidade do projeto de intervencao foi propiciar o brincar entre maes e filhos e assim demonstrar que brincar junto desenvolve a crianca alem de fortalecer os lacos afetivos. O importante e a relacao que se estabelece nas brincadeiras, quando o adulto brinca com a crianca, ela vivencia a experiencia amorosa com o outro, sendo um meio de comunicacao, e nesse brincar que a crianca experimenta o conforto e se sente acolhida. Esse processo de aprendizado e vital para o desenvolvimento da confianca e autoestima, base para a construcao do carater e de futuros relacionamentos positivos e afetuosos.

Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Estudios de Género, Perspectivas y Retos de Futuro: Jóvenes Investigadores (Getafe, 13 - 15 de junio de 2018) organizado por el Instituto Universitario de Estudios de Género de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Este artigo pretende analisar o atual cenário de game-making intrínseco ao jogo Roblox e explorar a estrutura e possíveis implicações legais de jogos on-line que transformam o jogador em um produtor de conteúdo. Roblox é uma das plataformas de criação de jogos online que acendeu em popularidade durante a pandemia do COVID-19, e com um público majoritariamente infanto-juvenil. O propósito deste artigo é aflorar a discussão acerca de trabalho infantil camuflado de recreação em plataformas de jogos online. Os resultados demonstram que usuários da plataforma Roblox para produção de jogos poderiam, sim, ser considerados trabalhadores, e não estão sendo remunerados de maneira correta. Destacamos que esta pesquisa apresenta apenas os achados preliminares da etapa exploratória de uma pesquisa maior, ainda em andamento.

O character design visa a construção de personagens e é um dos pilares essenciais para o desenvolvimento de jogos. Considerando os arquétipos presentes na composição da silhueta, da paleta de cores e do exagero ao construir personagens, observa-se, consequentemente, uma influência no desenvolvimento de sua personalidade, estética, comportamento e principalmente sua aparência, elementos que são fundamentais na construção tanto da narrativa quanto na própria percepção do personagem. Este artigo visa, através da game analysis, evidenciar e analisar esses arquétipos em protagonistas silenciosos à partir dos conceitos designados por Jung (2011) nos jogos Hollow Knight e Undertale e o que agregam ao storytelling, considerando técnicas e mecanismos usados para evocar catarse e influenciar o jogador a empatizar com a obra.

This study explores the morpho-semantic analysis of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) jargon and its educational implications. As one of the most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games, MLBB has fostered a unique lexicon comprised of specialized jargon, slang, and abbreviations that reflect the gaming community's distinct communication style. The research examines the morphological processes involved in the creation of MLBB jargon, including affixation, compounding, clipping, blending, and abbreviation, while also investigating its semantic shifts such as narrowing, broadening, metaphorical extension, and pejoration. Through qualitative analysis of in-game conversations, forums, and live streams, the study reveals how players construct and negotiate meaning using this specialized language. Furthermore, the study highlights the educational implications of MLBB jargon. It discusses how exposure to gaming language can influence language acquisition, literacy skills, and communicative competence among players. The research underscores the potential of integrating game-based language into educational contexts to enhance student engagement, particularly in vocabulary development, contextual understanding, and creative language use. Ultimately, this study offers valuable insights into how gaming jargon functions as a dynamic linguistic phenomenon and how it can be leveraged as a pedagogical tool in language instruction and literacy programs.

The purpose of this research is to develop a Class Library in the domain of Scrolling Shooter games. The built of this Class Library will be used to develop Scrolling Shooter games as the result of this research. In software engineering, there is a reuse concept that is used to reuse functional systems. One application of this concept is the class library. With the class library, programmers can directly call the functions they need without building them from scratch. This study also used the class library concept for the domain of the shooter scrolling game case. The development of a Class Library is done through seven phases, Domain Analysis, Frozenspot Analysis, Hotspot Analysis, Modelling Class Library, Implementation Class Library, Unit Testing, and Integration Testing, and those will be the main discussion of this research. Furthermore, this research's conclusion is expected to help game programmers develop Scrolling Shooter games without making the whole system functional...

In a region full of crackdowns, Arab countries in the Middle East have found themselves in a competitive digital atmosphere. A variety of Arab-themed video-games began circulating on the Internet reflecting a number of social and political values which are sought to be investigated in the current research. The purpose of this paper is to carry out a critical discourse analysis of video games as a means of computer mediated communication. The research concentrates its scope on the games that represent Egyptians, Libyan, Syrians, and Arabs in the Gulf region. With a variety of genres, the Arab video-gaming industry is emerging attempting to exercise any form of media power over the people who play them. It is the mental, social, and ideological values in the Arab real-life, not the quality of the games that motivate the current research. That is, this study seeks to examine world views, cultural information and identities through the thematic representations and the moral values transmitted through the selected games. The current study provides a theoretical approach to video-games emphasizing the definition of the genres available; critical discourse analysis and multimodality are chosen as theoretical frameworks for the analysis of the communicative modes utilized in the games. The study highlights how linguistic choices are reflected in the mental, social and ideological representations of game elements.

In a region full of crackdowns, Arab countries in the Middle East have found themselves in a competitive digital atmosphere. A variety of Arab-themed video-games began circulating on the Internet reflecting a number of social and political values which are sought to be investigated in the current research. The purpose of this paper is to carry out a critical discourse analysis of video games as a means of computer mediated communication. The research concentrates its scope on the games that represent Egyptians, Libyan, Syrians, and Arabs in the Gulf region. With a variety of genres, the Arab video-gaming industry is emerging attempting to exercise any form of media power over the people who play them. It is the mental, social, and ideological values in the Arab real-life, not the quality of the games that motivate the current research. That is, this study seeks to examine world views, cultural information and identities through the thematic representations and the moral values trans...

La investigación establece un vínculo entre las distopías y las intertextualidades nostálgicas que se manifiestan en la representación narrativa de la ucronía dentro del videojuego. Para explorar esta relación intertextual, se analizan las sagas Fallout, Bioshock y Wolfenstein desde la perspectiva de los game studies, en diálogo con las características fundamentales de las distopías literarias y las dimensiones filosóficas de la nostalgia. Entre los hallazgos destacados emergen elementos convergentes como la hauntología de Derrida, la manipulación histórica, la figura del héroe rebelde y la reescritura del pasado. En cuanto al vínculo con la nostalgia, aunque el idealismo del pasado constituye un núcleo central, su tratamiento varía: en Wolfenstein, la nostalgia actúa como un símbolo de esperanza; en Bioshock, se emplea para reformular el presente; y en Fallout, más allá de su estética retro, se comercializa a través de productos y marcas que evocan una melancolía pragmática.

El objetivo de este proyecto es sentar las bases dentro del ámbito educativo para realizar videojuegos innovadores en términos de mecánicas, estéticas e interfaces hombre-máquina poco comunes.Eje: Ingeniería de Software.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informátic

Advergame, as a medium of marketing communication is getting popular recently in Indonesia. Different to other advertising mediums, such as newspapers, magazines, televisions, and radios, which informations are delivered by narrative forms, advergame has its own uniquity in delivering the message. It makes consumers participate (active). This research aimed to find the effects of the age of advergame player to the levels of comprehension of brand message. This research that used posivitism approach verifies two variables with total 24 indicators. The method that used in this research is experimental with one shot case study with the total 45 samples who are divided in three age-based experiment groups. The data gathered by questionnaires which are given to participants after playing an advergame. Technique used to analyse data is One-Way ANOVA comparative analysis with fulfilled assumptions, such sample independency, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test and Test of Homogenity Variance. The findings of this research show that age of advergame players effects positively to the levels of comprehension of brand message. Found a difference by means of levels of comprehension. The oldest group got the highest mean rank and the youngest group got the lowest. There is significant difference between children and adults player. Different to children, adults could reach the highest comprehension level, the deeper level comprehension.

L'avancée en âge s'accompagne de nombreux déclins cognitifs, mais reste cependant un phénomène très hétérogène. En effet, plusieurs facteurs extrinsèques semblent moduler l'impact du vieillissement sur la cognition. Récemment, une série d'études a mis en évidence que la pratique des jeux vidéo pouvait engendrer de nombreux bénéfices en faveur du maintien de la vitalité cognitive des seniors. Cette revue de littérature vise donc à établir un état des lieux précis de la relation entre les différentes natures de jeux vidéo et le vieillissement cognitif, à partir des jeux vidéo sédentaires (i.e., classiques vs. entrainement cérébral) et des jeux vidéo actifs (i.e., exergames). Les améliorations les plus probantes semblent être permises par l'intermédiaire des exergames qui combinent à la fois la stimulation intellectuelle et l'exercice physique. Cet article cherche également à définir les déterminants des programmes d'entrainement pouvant être responsables des améliorations observées.

Jerzy Bialomyzy – magister, doktorant w Zakladzie Gramatyki, Semantyki i Pragmatyki Wspolczesnego Jezyka Polskiego, Instytut Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Zainteresowania badawcze: pragmatyka jezykoznawcza, retoryka, jezyk propagandy politycznej, gry edukacyjne, neuroterapia.

"Indeed, with hardship will be ease" ( Al Insyirah : 6 ) "I refuse to let my fear control me anymore!" v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Alhamdulillah, all praise and thanks is for the Almighty Allah SWT, the lord of the universe, for all blessing and mercies so the researcher was able to finish this thesis entitled "An Analysis of Language Game Structures of FITK of IAIN Surakarta". Peace and salution be upon the great messenger Muhammad SAW the greates leader and the greatest leader and good inspiration of world revolution. The researcher is sure that this thesis would not be completed without the helps, support and suggestion from several sides. Thus, the researcher wold like to express her deepest thanks to all of those who had helped, supposed, and suggestion her during the process of writing this thesis, this goes to: 1. Prof. Dr. H. Mudofir, S. Ag., M. Pd as the Rector of the State Islamic Institute of Surakarta. 2. Prof. Dr. Toto Suharto, S.Ag., M. Ag as the Dean of Cultures and Languages Faculty. 3. Nur Asiyah, S.S., M.A as the Head of English Letters Department. 4. Muhammad Zainal Muttaqien, S.S., M.Hum., as the advisor for his guidance, precious advices, correction, time, motivation and helping revise the mistake during the entire process of wrting this thesis. Thank you so much. 5. Bayu Dewa Murti., M. Hum. as the validator of the data in this research. thanks for willing to take apart in this thesis. 6. All lectures of english Letters, thanks for guidance, advice and share knowledge with me. 7. For my beloved father, Warkim Rusmiarjo and my amazing mother, Rustinah. Thanks for your love, you teach me so well. Thank you so vii much for everything, for supporting and praying for me. 8. My beloved brothers, Ruswandi and Ruswanto. Thanks for your support. 9. All of my friends in English Letters 2014 especially of A life Alive class thanks for your support and expereience. 10. All my friends who willing to take a part in this research (Ilham, Rika, Ridha, Aya) thanks for your support and big help. 11. All of my best friends of Ashabul Nolep, Asri Fathin Azizah and Sutanti Prasetyaningsih. Thanks for always support and pray. 12. The big family of PC IMM Ahmad Dahlan Kota Surakarta for the expereience. The researcher realize that this thesis is still far from being perfect. The researcher hopes that this is useful for the researcher in particukar and the reader in general.

La industria de los videojuegos ha crecido notablemente durante la última década. Estudios realizados en 2017 por la Entertainment Software Association (ESA, 2018) demuestran que, solo en Estados Unidos, la inversión de consumidores pasó de 17.5 billones de dó- lares en el 2010 a 29.1 billones de dólares en 2017. Los informes de dicha asociación también estimaron que durante 2018, el 60% de la población estadounidense utilizó cualquier tipo de videojuego al menos una vez al día. Estudios similares documentan este crecimien- to de la industria a nivel mundial.
Respecto al contexto latinoamericano, puede citarse la infor- mación más reciente del Global Game Market Report (Newzoo, 2018), el cual señala que los consumidores de videojuegos en Mé- xico gastaron 1.6 billones de dólares durante 2018, y se estima que existen 55.8 millones de videojugadores mexicanos. Con ello, el ran- king mundial del GGM 2018 ubica a México en la posición número doce entre los cincuenta países que más consumen videojuegos, siendo el primero de América Latina. Cabe destacar que el primer lugar mundial está ocupado por China, con 619.5 millones de con- sumidores de videojuegos, en segundo lugar, Estados Unidos con 178.7 millones y, en tercer lugar, Japón con 67.6 millones (New- zoo, 2018).
Ahora bien, dentro de los estudios mencionados se revela infor- mación adicional que va más allá de la estadística económica y resulta pertinente para los fines de este capítulo. Entre los hallazgos de la Entertainment Software Association (ESA, 2018) se señalan los factores que influencian la decisión de compra de un videojuego, y la primera consideración del consumidor es la calidad de los gráficos; en segundo lugar, se encuentra el precio y, en tercer lugar, el interés por la premisa narrativa. Otros tres factores de menor injerencia son la posibilidad de conectividad para partidas en línea, la vinculación del videojuego con una saga específica y la pertenencia del videojuego como producto de un universo transmedia.
Siguiendo entonces, los resultados de Gallager (ESA, 2018) se destaca que para los consumidores resulta sumamente importante el disfrute visual del videojuego, es decir, la experiencia estética que se propondrá en el consumo del hipermedio. Durante el presente capí- tulo, al hablar de estética se toma en consideración la filosofía de la belleza de Umberto Eco, referente a las cosas que en determinada época y para determinada cultura “se reconocen como agradables a la vista, independientemente del deseo que experimentemos ante ellas” (Eco, 2010).
En ese sentido, Gallager (en ESA, 2018) menciona que en el crecimiento espectacular de la industria del videojuego “los artistas digitales pueden ser la estrella más brillante de la economía norteamericana”.

El presente capítulo se desarrolla en el marco de las líneas de investigación que refieren a los videojuegos como adaptaciones, formas de traducción y réplica de formas cinematográficas. Se considera, además, que los mecanismos narrativos propios del lenguaje videolúdico y la construcción de la experiencia estética propician un estado de alteridad en el usuario del hipermedio.

Para quien suscribe, el videojuego es una evolución tecnológica del juego,
por lo tanto debe estudiarse como actividad lúdica inherente a la condición humana; al ser un elemento generado por el hombre, el juego y el videojuego pueden dotarse de significación y convertirse en un objeto comunicativo; y en su condición de objeto comunicativo el videojuego puede ser utilizadodirecta o indirectamente como agente cultural e identitario.

Siguiendo estos argumentos, el presente escrito persigue la revisión de
un objeto hipermediático en particular, el videojuego Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), para determinar si la adaptación videolúdica del género western resulta útil para generar un estado de alteridad cultural en el usuario, toda vez que la experiencia estética replica las características del noroeste mexicano a finales del siglo xix y principios del siglo xx.
Se realiza entonces una revisión a las características esenciales del género western y su evolución del medio cinematográfico al videolúdico. Posteriormente se presenta una aproximación a la experiencia estética de RDR2, y una validación de la alteridad cultural del hipermedio como agente identitariopara el videojugador bajacaliforniano.

Esta investigación se ha desarrollado como parte de las actividades del
cuerpo académico Diseño y Comunicación ca-uabc-229, adscrito a la Facultad de Ciencias de la Ingeniería y Tecnología, de la Universidad Autónoma deBaja California. La línea de investigación de este grupo se circunscribe a la función comunicativa e identitaria del diseño gráfico en el noroeste mexicano; en este sentido, el interés particular de los investigadores que suscriben este capítulo se enfoca en estudiar el diseño aplicado a los objetos hipermediáticos y su potencial relación con la preservación de la identidad regional.

This article aims to correlate Brazilian games developed and released in the 1990s for the Master System games platform with the concepts of decolonial aesthetics, as presented by the Argentine semiologist Walter Mignolo, and the distribution of the sensible, introduced by the French philosopher Jacques Rancière. The article departs from the theoretical review of the concepts of decolonial aesthetics and the distribution of the sensible and then presents and comments on the games selected for the corpus of the work, elaborating on the possible relationships between them and the concepts described above. Finally, it concludes that these games are representative of a decolonial mark in Brazilian games developed in the 1990s.

Este artigo tem por objetivo correlacionar jogos brasileiros desenvolvidos e lançados na década de 1990 para a plataforma de games Master System com os conceitos de estética decolonial, conforme apresentado pelo semiólogo argentino Walter Mignolo, e partilha do sensível, introduzido pelo filósofo francês Jacques Rancière. O artigo parte da revisão teórica dos conceitos de estética decolonial e partilha do sensível para, em seguida, apresentar e comentar os jogos selecionados para o corpus do trabalho, elaborando as possíveis relações entre eles e os conceitos acima descritos. Por fim, conclui que esses jogos são representativos de uma marca decolonial nos games brasileiros desenvolvidos na década de 1990.

Web-based learning has revolutionized distance education from the foundations. The tremendous variety of new possibilities offered has also caused the upgrade of methodologies and strategies entailed in face-to-face education. The possibility to exploit remote and distributed resources, multimediality and hypermediality, all allow establishing unprecedented dynamic links among traditional chunks of knowledge and novel ways of representing information. The use of social networks further spurs discussion, exchange of ideas and experience, and cultural mix-up. This supports the concrete implementation of socio-constructivism in a way that was unexpected by its pioneers. However, every medal has a reverse side. Relying uniquely on remote deployment of knowledge and configuration of learning tasks suffers from the lack of personal, concrete interaction both among learning peers and with teachers. It is often the case that distance learning becomes a lonely experience, with no factor actu...

Sound is both an atmospheric and functional element of understanding one's orientation within a space, whether real or virtual, evoking a sense of spatial awareness. With videogame engines becoming increasingly prevalent in architectural practice for constructing virtual spaces, coupled with the growing interest of architects in videogame design, an opportunity emerges for the intentional designing of sound as an essential spatial component. By examining the role of audio in videogame environmental storytelling, this article provides insights for environmental designers, world-building artists, and architects seeking to comprehend dynamic sounds to narrate their digital stories using interactive and non-linear storytelling media. It does so by illustrating how videogame sound designers and music composers create and integrate sonic experiences that respond to in-game environments in three case studies. This research was conducted through a series of interviews with leading videogame sound

Niniejsza publikacja to jedenasty tom naszego cyklicznego wydawnictwa pod tytułem „Człowiek a historia. Ludzie i wydarzenia”. Otwarta formuła spotkań pod tą samą nazwą, które organizujemy tradycyjnie w połowie maja już od przeszło dwudziestu lat w uczelni w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim, obecnie Akademii Piotrkowskiej, sprawia, że tematyka zaprezentowana w niniejszej książce jest niezwykle różnorodna.
W związku z tym postanowiliśmy podzielić proponowane treści na kil-ka działów. W pierwszym z nich, historycznym, znalazły się opracowania podejmujące zagadnienia dotyczące m.in. związków rodzinnych Marka Antoniusza, wizerunku chrześcijan w podstawowych muzułmańskich zbiorach tradycji, udziału Polaków w procesach negocjacyjnych pomiędzy państwem moskiewskim a chakaskim Hongorajem na Syberii. Nie zabrakło również prezentacji osiągnięć ośrodka wrocławskiego zajmującego się badaniami nad staropolską spuścizną kazań pogrzebowych czy poradników tzw. dobrej śmierci. W sekcji dziewiętnastowiecznej z kolei podejmowane są m.in. tematy związane ze starożytnymi inspiracjami Napoleona Bonaparte, wizerunkiem Hiszpanii w wybranych pismach polskich twórców doby rozbiorów, czy relacjami z wojen lat siedemdziesiątych XIX wieku, przygotowanymi przez jednego z amerykańskich korespondentów wojennych. Znalazło się tu-taj też bardzo ciekawe opracowanie z zakresu historii społecznej, dotyczące rozwoju ruchu rowerowego w miastach zaboru pruskiego na przełomie XIX i XX wieku. W dziale dwudziestowiecznym możemy z kolei zapoznać się z wybranymi wątkami życia Fritza Habera, omówieniem polityki Władysława Sikorskiego wobec koncepcji unii z Czechosłowacją, a także historycznymi analizami wybranych przekazów filmowych i prasowych z lat trzydziestych.
Dział historii wojskowości to z kolei trzy interesujące analizy dotyczą-ce kolejno: znaczenia szabli w wojskach autoramentu narodowego w XVII wieku na podstawie wybranych materiałów pamiętnikarskich, bardzo udane i wprowadzające wiele nowych wątków opracowanie kariery Aleksandra Korwina Gosiewskiego, a także przyczynek do poznania dziejów rozwoju gier wojennych. Dział „Historia Pamięci” to teksty odnoszące się do zachowania dziedzictwa żydowskiego na przykładzie miast województwa kujaw-sko-pomorskiego oraz analiza wspomnień wybranych Sybiraków. Autor osta-tniego artykułu wykorzystał nigdzie niepublikowane dotąd materiały, zebrane dzięki zastosowaniu metod tzw. historii mówionej. W kolejnym dziale zna-lazł się esej z zakresu historii prawa, którego Autorka próbuje wykazać związki pomiędzy współczesnymi dokumentami konstytucyjnymi wielu krajów a filozofią polityczną św. Tomasza z Akwinu. Podobny, eseistyczny charakter mają również artykuły zgromadzone w ostatnim dziale, pt. „Etyka i kultura”, gdzie możemy m.in. zapoznać się z materiałami dotyczącymi sposobu reinterpretacji nowych form tekstów kultury, jakimi są gry.
Mamy nadzieję, że chociaż część z zaprezentowanych w niniejszej publikacji artykułów zainteresuje szerokie grono Czytelników i tegoż też życzymy naszym Autorom.

This chapter describes the experiences of one English Language Arts teacher who incorporated role-playing games into her 6th grade classroom. During a historical fiction unit focused on the American Revolution, students read young adult novels, participated in book clubs, and created role-playing games based on the novels. Drawing on game-based learning and literacy, and a transactional theory of reading, the authors argue that role-playing games can help students inhabit literary worlds by foregrounding the aesthetic aspects of reading. A description of the roleplaying game project, including its goals, activities, and assessments, is provided. -How can role-playing game help students create immersive and imaginative literary worlds? -How do role-playing games provide students with opportunities to connect and extend their out of school literacy practices around gaming? -What role-playing activities do you already incorporate into your teaching of literature? How might you extend these activities so that students are given opportunities to experience the aesthetic aspects of reading? -What are some of your and your students' favorite games? How might you adapt aspects of these games into your teaching of reading and writing? -What do you see as the benefits and challenges of creating a participatory culture in your classroom?

This essay explores the intermedial and digital aspects of "Bandersnatch", an interactive work part of the "Black Mirror" series, released on Netflix between 2018 and 2020. "Bandersnatch", a choose-your-own-adventure style video game, blurred the lines between film, video, and interactive digital storytelling, raising questions about its categorisation and reception. This study examines the intermedial challenges of taxonomy, the role of digital codes in its transcodification, and the implications of its intermedial performativity. By analysing the structure, design, and user experience of it, this research reveals the complexities of its interactive storytelling, including the influence of media systems, technologies, and contexts on the user’s choices and perception. Furthermore, it highlights the need for a transdisciplinary approach to understanding the hybridisation of media in Bandersnatch, recognising it as a macro-genre of transcodification that challenges traditional forms, processes, and practices of media cultures.

In The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist, Keogh takes a deeply human stance, emphasizing that gamemakers struggle for legitimacy and position within a broader field “in which cultural, social, and economic values flow” (7) informed by criteria such as local geographies, education, and working conditions. In doing so, he shifts views on videogame production from that of a monolithic “industry” to a diverse set of practices and circumstances driven by creative workers adapting and resisting systems of power that exploit their efforts.

Serious games are understood as games that have a purpose beyond entertainment, and are designed for the educational or behavior-change benefit of those who play them. However, the creation of text-based, choice-driven games presents an opportunity for therapeutic narratives that benefit the game authors as well as potential players. Although the benefits of storytelling for therapy has been previously established, these narratives were often linear in nature; the software program, Twine, enables technologically non-savvy authors to write branching narratives with multiple choices, creating an opportunity for an enhanced experience of cathartic storytelling. This paper includes a brief description of writing therapy models, including cognitive behavioral writing therapy (CWBT) and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), and how the thinking involved with creating choice-based narratives mimics those processes. Then, it moves into a brief introduction of Twine and how it is used to create non-linear narratives. Following that, the paper presents three self-reported cases of authors who have experienced catharsis and wellbeing benefits via the use of interactive storytelling with Twine, and how the creation of choice-based narratives enhanced this wellbeing experience. Finally, the paper presents advantages for introducing Twine in a formal therapy process, and practical considerations in doing so.

Master of Arts "Consummation" was the one term about which Kenneth Burke wasn't particularly longwinded-odd considering his claim that it was the apex of his theory of form. Perhaps Burke never explained exactly what consummation was because he himself was never clear on the subject, as he told John Woodcock in an interview toward the end of his career. Burke began conceptualizing his theory of form early on-in his 20s-and published it in his first critical book, Counter-Statement, in 1931. At that time, Burke's theory of form had already taken one evolutionary step-from selfexpression, with the focus on the artist, to communication, with the focus on the psychology of the reader. Communication was to Burke an "arousing and fulfilling of desires." However, by the 60s, Burke introduced us to a new term which he only used a handful of times in his entire corpus: consummation. This paper attempts to define consummation by exploring Burke's theory of form and looking to his correspondences with friends and scholars. It offers two answers: first, consummation is the act of a reader responding to a writer in critical conversation; second, consummation is the ultimate cathartic achievement. Both play an important civic role. Using current science regarding the gut in connection with emotional purgation, this paper treats seriously Burke's essay "The Thinking of the Body (Comments on the Imagery of Catharsis in Literature)" and his ideas regarding the "Demonic Trinity": micturition, defecation, and parturition, explaining Burkean catharsis as it differs from, deepens, and extends Aristotelian catharsis. What can we learn from what Burke meant by consummation? That the symbolic world is much more significant to our survival than we may realize. As the world of scientific motion advanced rapidly during Burke's lifetime, he began to lose hope that symbolic action could keep up with it. We can see how important poetry and the symbolic motive was for him; he seemed to think it was a matter of life and death. This paper explores what it meant for Burke to seek a consummated life, and the implications that held for him and for us. In the end, the paper posits the importance of catharsis to society in terms of war and peace.

Desde a virada do milênio, os videogames se expandiram e diversificaram, consolidando uma posição hegemônica dentro da cultura pop contemporânea. O público que consome games, da mesma forma, também se diversificou. Hoje, estima-se que mais de 40% da população mundial jogue em algum tipo de dispositivo eletrônico. À luz da relevância que os games possuem nas sociedades contemporâneas, o presente dossiê temático teve como foco reunir trabalhos que problematizem a relação entre jogos eletrônicos, cultura e sociedade. As contribuições aqui reunidas, oriundas de diferentes áreas do conhecimento, abordam e aprofundam um conjunto questões intrínsecas ao universo dos videogames. Dessa forma, este dossiê contribui para o fortalecimento dos games studies, sendo uma importante referência àqueles/as que se dedicam a investigação dos jogos.

O artigo explora os desafios metodológicos na análise da metaficção nos videogames, propondo um diálogo entre a teoria literária e os estudos de games. O texto discute como a autorreferencialidade se manifesta nos jogos, enquanto elementos narrativos e mecânicos interagem com o jogador. A partir da pesquisa de propostas anteriores, destacam-se os desafios de construir metodologias que considerem as especificidades e complexidades de cada jogo, como regras, mecânicas e esquemas metaficcionais, sem desconsiderar contribuições de outras áreas. O artigo defende uma abordagem tanto metataxonômica, na qual os esquemas metaficcionais emergem a partir do corpus analisado, quanto contextual, na qual a metaficção pode ser compreendida como um ponto de partida para discussões sobre cultura e sociedade, contribuindo para consolidar os estudos de games como campo interdisciplinar.

What makes video games such powerful narrative media? My research explores how the interplay between games and players creates rich, complex experiences. By examining the ways in which video games narratives are organised, and how players collaboratively construct them, I uncover the mechanisms that make video game narratives so fascinating. In the first part of my work, I unpack the ingredients of compelling video game narratives. I show how certain storytelling techniques spark specific emotional and cognitive reactions in players, offering insights that could help game designers craft richer, more meaningful narratives. Next, I delve into the dynamic relationship between games and players as they collaborate to the sensemaking. This collaboration, I argue, behaves like a complex system, where countless interactions build something greater than the sum of its parts. In the final section, I bring these two threads together: the complexity of narratives and the complexity of sensemaking. I demonstrate how the two interact to produce the rich, multifaceted experiences we encounter in video games. Finally, I show how games can ease our mental workload by relying on cognitive shortcuts revealed by brain science. My findings have broad implications, touching on fields like narratology, media and game studies, game design, and beyond, and they open exciting possibilities for using video games to better represent and explore the complexity of our world.

We propose a set of six topics of inquiry into historical games as regards their feminine characters, and we illustrate them through an analysis of This War of Mine, Valiant Hearts and 80 Days. Historical games may include documented historical characters and fictive characters as well; the latter may aim to represent a type of real persons, or may be individualized as a purely fictional character. We argue that This War of Mine, Valiant Hearts and 80 Days have both strong and weak points in their construction of feminine characters, when taking into account the proposed set of indicators.

We propose a set of six topics of inquiry into historical games as regards their feminine characters, and we illustrate them through an analysis of This War of Mine, Valiant Hearts and 80 Days. Historical games may include documented historical characters and fictive characters as well; the latter may aim to represent a type of real persons, or may be individualized as a purely fictional character. We argue that This War of Mine, Valiant Hearts and 80 Days have both strong and weak points in their construction of feminine characters, when taking into account the proposed set of indicators.

Gender has recently increased in relevance as a game analysis topic. Representations of masculinity and femininity in games have become a growing interest for scholars. Still, little has been written about representations of aging and older persons. Starting from this status-quo, we propose an analysis of age displays in a subtype of video games, namely casual art games. These are designed to encourage reflexivity and perspective-taking on a given topic, examining the human condition and offering a critical view of society. We examine several casual art games and we discuss how they depict and model older characters and the process of aging: What are the game-based narratives of aging? How are elderly characters portrayed and what place do they take in the emerging game story? How do game mechanics model the situation of 'old age' and the process of 'aging'?

This war of mine' is a critical game depicting the war experience from a civilian's perspective. As a game, it relies on its interactivity in order to offer the player an immersive experience. As a critical game, it challenges design conventions while also encouraging self-reflection. 'This war of mine' proposes interpretations of both real life and play in an ethical and realistic manner. We show the means it employs as a medium for sending a message: its content, rhetoric, presentation, as well as the debates that it stirs. Thus, as games are played in a cloud of comments and reviews, we also explore the collaborative process of moral learning in 'This war of mine' and we discuss the game's efficiency as a medium in delivering an ethical gameplay experience.

Ситуация на Ближнем Востоке и политика Израиля/
На Ближнем Востоке сложилась сложная ситуация, и политика Израиля сталкивается с серьезными вызовами. Несмотря на угрозы национальным интересам, некоторые внутренние силы стремятся превратить израильтян в “граждан мира”, отдаляя их от исторических корней и сионистской идеи, которая восстановила суверенитет еврейского народа на их родной земле.

Эти силы основывают свою политику на воображаемом мире, а не на реальной действительности. Многие израильтяне подвержены пропаганде, распространяемой профессиональными политтехнологами, и не делают выводов на основе реальных результатов этих действий и их последствий.

The paper deals with a gamified approach developed to support teachers' reflection and awareness on a set of specific behaviours that can support informal learning. The approach adopts a metaphor, vegetable gardens to be grown, to represent the teachers' participatory practice and is enriched with specific game mechanics (tasks, goals and badges). The metaphor was reified in two different modalities: paper-based and digital. The approach was preliminary tested with two groups of teachers.

The chapter begins with a genealogy of whiteness and its relationship to
screen technology, providing a potted or contextual history of the entanglement of racial representation and the ‘eyes’ of cinema. It draws into this history the polysemic concept of passing, using the term to explore the different ways that race has been Othered, ontologically disappeared, and subject to hierarchies of power. This history is then connected to virtual production and the contemporary moment, to evidence that a racialised genealogy remains a constant in the production apparatuses of cinema.

El juego de los dados es uno de los juegos más antiguos de la humanidad. Los dados se usaron en todo Oriente desde tiempo inmemorial, como lo demuestran los hallazgos arqueológicos en antiguas tumbas que datan del quinto milenio antes de Cristo.
En este caso, los Dados de Aschero aportan un modelo creativo donde aparece como elemento esencial lo musical, surgido de la Numerofonía que se vincula a lo lúdico que aportan los dados.
Es una obra con la que se culmina una serie de aportes a los juegos creativos de mesa y que comprenden: El Ábaco, el Dominó, los Naipes y los Dados.

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