{"id":1863,"date":"2014-01-27T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2014-01-27T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:17:10","slug":"the-journal-of-games-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2014\/01\/27\/the-journal-of-games-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journal of Games Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a new contender: The\u00a0Journal of Games Criticism vol 1, issue 1 <\/a>is out.<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Nicholas Hanford’s editorial:<\/p>\n

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With this journal, it is our aim to create a space for all members of the game studies, game journalism, and game development communities to publish criticism that influences both the making of games and betters our understanding of games as cultural artifacts.<\/p>\n

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ARTICLES<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Editorial: Standing on the Horizon of the Second Generation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0N. Hanford<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the inaugural issue of our open access, peer reviewed journal. Drawing out the assumptions and ideals of the journal, this text serves as an introduction for the current and future issues of the\u00a0Journal of Games Criticism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Other Side of the Valley; Or, Between Freud and Videogames<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0K. Aardse<\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper explores the root of the uncanny valley as based in Freud\u2019s uncanny and posits that the uncanny valley allows us to engage in acts of violence and enjoy a masochistic relationship with the videogame; this relationship would break down if the uncanny valley is conquered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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INVITED ARTICLES<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Across Worlds and Bodies: Criticism in the Age of Video Games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0B. Keogh<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article highlights the values inherited by game studies that have resisted the creation of a toolkit for close, descriptive analysis of individual texts. It suggests one path forward grounded in the phenomenological pleasures of videogame play across worlds and bodies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“You’re Just Gonna Be Nice”: How Players Engage with Moral Choice Systems\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0A. Lange<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you a Paragon, or a Renegade? Light Side, or Dark Side? I surveyed over 1000 gamers to see how they engaged with moral choice systems in video games. The results are sadly predictable: You’re all too nice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Public Memory and Gamer Identity: Retrogaming as Nostalgia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0D. S. Heineman<\/strong><\/p>\n

This essay adopts a critical perspective to analyze the rise of retrogaming culture and its related practices. Specifically, it considers the role of nostalgia in both constructing a retrogamer identity and in contesting histories of the medium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Visualizing Game Studies: Materiality and Sociality from Chessboard to Circuit Board\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0A. Trammell\u00a0<\/strong>&\u00a0A. Sinnreich<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this essay, we describe a paradigm shift in the social function and reception of games, from metaphors to social instruments. We also offer a taxonomic visualization of the Game Studies field in order to show the history of this paradigm shift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BOOK REVIEW<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gaming for Better Life: A Review of Jane McGonigal\u2019s\u00a0Reality Is Broken<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Q. Ji<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane McGonigal\u2019s groundbreaking work\u00a0Reality Is Broken\u00a0<\/em>challenged the\u00a0negative-effects-oriented rhetoric of game criticism by\u00a0reconciling the contradictory relationship among games, individual well-being, and social change from a game designer\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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