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  Cozy Horror: Crow Country’s Cathartic Return to Playing Fear

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  Caleb Ward Georgia State University - Department of Communication

  November 14, 2024

  nostalgic  atmosphere by reviewers, and I’m inclined to agree. We might cite the game’s setting and subject, ... deployed alongside other features that did intentionally heighten the illegibility of the game world, like ... a full space connected to outside areas (unlike Crow Country), there remains a persistent possibility of ...
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  Esports Was Always Physical: Or, Celebrating with firebathero

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  Will Partin University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

  January 15, 2019

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  a performance that insists upon the Being of esports alongside and within that which is material. Over six (!) ...
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  Tabletop Documentary: The Configurative Praxis of Train

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  Jordan Wood Syracuse University

  September 29, 2014

  with passengers in the most efficient way possible. On their turn, players roll a die and then either ...
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  Game Mechanics as Emergent Narrative

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  Ryan Clement University of Waterloo

  September 09, 2017

  possible pre-scripted endings forces linearity. Some games—abstract games—eschew scripted narratives for ...