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DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Contexts, pleasures and preferences: girls playing computer games
In this paper, issues of girls and their gaming preferences are explored through observations of computer games sessions at an all-girl state school. What emerged is that preferen...
Diane Carr
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity
This paper outlines how representations of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity intersect with strategies of late capitalism in The Sims, arguably the most popular video game of ...
A. Brady Curlew
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
End of story? Quest, narrative and enactment in computer games
Espen Aarseth recently claimed that all games referred to as ’narrative games’ could better be described as ’quest games’. The writer of this paper suggests that Max Payne...
Anders Sundnes Løvlie
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
'Feel It, Don't Think: the Significance of Affect in the Study of Digital Games
Game studies methodologies which focus on the visual, narrative, and semiotic content of digital games overlook the way that embodied perception and physiological response contrib...
Eugenie Shinkle
DIGRA
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fictive affinities in Final Fantasy XI: complicit and critical play in fantastic nations.
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...
William Huber