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The Ethics of Ludic Reflection and Emotional Obligation

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Robert Mejia North Dakota State University

May 08, 2017

The Ethics of Ludic Reflection and Emotional Obligation ethics Moral Media neoliberalism video games Curator's Note Playing with morality has long been a part of the video game industry. Ethics and morality, for instance, are central to the narrative ...

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Ethical Empires

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Fredrik Knudsen YouTube

May 10, 2017

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Ethical Empires Empire Management Fredrik Knudsen gaming Grand Strategy Moral Media Paradox Interactive Stellaris Curator's Note Empire management games, or “Grand Strategy” games as they are known, are notoriously impenetrable and cold. Most commonl ...

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Re: Politicizing the Spectacle

Social Spectacle?

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Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 — 8:51 pm

cooptation of which you speak, but the possibility for building broader coalitions may be worth considering. ...

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Anger within the Labyrinth: The Recurrent Fights of Om Puri

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Shorna Pal University of St Andrews

May 12, 2017

case, landlords, their side-kicks) who puppeteer every action of the poverty stricken lives before them. ...

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Re: The Ethics of Ludic Reflection and Emotional Obligation

Thank you for your thoughts, Robert!

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Whitney Pow Northwestern University

Monday, May 15, 2017 — 11:42 pm

series as being a mechanical and transactional system. I’m interested in how morality is utilized in ... these “moral” quandaries appear as side-quests and fetch quests (though moral choices do appear in main ...

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Re: Ethical Empires

Grand strategy games, empire and empathy

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Whitney Pow Northwestern University

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 — 5:09 pm

necessarily deeply intertwined and unable to be separated? Would it be possible to create a game about empire ... yesterday, something that is necessarily emotional and affective? Is it possible to create a grand strategy ...

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Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born

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Andrea Braithwaite University of Ontario Institute of Technology

September 07, 2017

Between the Lines: Finding Feminist Possibility Spaces in Kathy Rain: A Detective is Born ... scholars call the “possibility space” – what a game makes possible, and impossible, through its design. For ... leave the biker bar, and we can’t say something conciliatory in response.It seems like less is possible ...

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