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  Flyting and Charisma in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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  Steve Spence Clayton State University

  August 30, 2021

  and new outcomes, both in side quests and in the primary narrative. Valhalla is an open-world game, ... convince strangers to reveal secrets. Another benefit appears in the side quest “Permission to Weep,” which ...
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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 ...
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  Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering

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  Hannah Scharlin-Pettee Independent

  June 06, 2016

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  Monster of Monsters: Rendering the Abject in Magic: the Gathering the abject Magic: the Gathering game mechanics Curator's Note In Monster Culture: (Seven Theses), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a reading of monsters as symbolic constructs that embody s ...