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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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  From Webtoon to Apptoon: Changes of Korean Webtoon's Displaying code

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  Sang-jung Han Incheon National University, Korea

  September 09, 2017

  choose or to eliminate so that audiences can perceive the screen as likely as possible. Thus, zooming in ...
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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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  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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  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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  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: 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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  Ethical Empires

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  Fredrik Knudsen YouTube

  May 10, 2017

  3 comments

  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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  The Ethics of Ludic Reflection and Emotional Obligation

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  Robert Mejia North Dakota State University

  May 08, 2017

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  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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  Re: Disruptive Disjunctions and The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu

  Rogue TV

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  Sharon Lauricella UOIT

  Friday, May 5, 2017 — 8:50 pm

  increasingly right-leaning government in the US, is it possible that the wealthy will be the ones to both ...

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