{"id":2662,"date":"2020-03-06T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:57:33","slug":"game-studies-vol-20-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2020\/03\/06\/game-studies-vol-20-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Studies vol 20, issue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

For your theoretical inspection: Game Studies 20\/01<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI Harbour Strong Feelings for Tali Despite Her Being a Fictional Character\u201d: Investigating Videogame Players\u2019 Emotional Attachments to Non-Player Characters<\/a>
\nby Jacqueline Burgess, Christian Jones<\/i><\/p>\n

This study investigated players\u2019 emotional attachment to two non-player characters from BioWare\u2019s\u00a0Mass Effect<\/i>\u00a0trilogy. Qualitative analysis of forum posts found players expressed intense emotional attachments but from different viewpoints. These emotional attachments also influenced how players engaged with the game mechanics of\u00a0Mass Effect 2<\/i>.<\/div>\n

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Sick, Slow, Cyborg: Crip Futurity in\u00a0Mass Effect<\/i><\/a>
\nby Adan Jerreat-Poole<\/i><\/p>\n

Can science fiction stories imagine more just futures for disabled bodies? Turning away from a future where technology has eradicated disability, this article explores crip encounters in\u00a0Mass Effect 1-3<\/i>\u00a0and interrogates the complex relationships between technology, culture, and disability.<\/div>\n

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Playing Virtual Jim Crow in\u00a0Mafia III<\/i>\u00a0– Prosthetic Memory via Historical Digital Games and the Limits of Mass Culture<\/a>
\nby Emil Lundedal Hammar<\/i><\/p>\n

This article applies the concept of prosthetic memory to\u00a0Mafia III<\/i>\u00a0in order to discuss the significance of both contexts of production and reception in determining memory-making potentials of historical digital games with attention to racialized oppression in and beyond games.<\/div>\n

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I’d Like to Buy the World a Nuka-Cola: The Purposes and Meanings of Video Game Soda Machines<\/a>
\nby Jess Morrissette<\/i><\/p>\n

Why do soda machines appear so frequently in video games? What purposes do they serve? What values do they represent? This article examines how virtual soda machines help anchor video games in a world we recognize as similar to our own, while simultaneously reinforcing the consumerist values of modern capitalism.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Liminality and the Smearing of War and Play in\u00a0Battlefield 1<\/i><\/a>
\nby Debra Ramsay<\/i><\/p>\n

This article interrogates how war and play are smeared together in Battlefield 1, the first AAA game set in World War I. It advances liminality as a conceptual framework to investigate the ambiguities and contradictions that emerge in the tension between the history, memory and cultural meanings of World War I and the game\u2019s ludic qualities.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For your theoretical inspection: Game Studies 20\/01.\u00a0 \u201cI Harbour Strong Feelings for Tali Despite Her Being a Fictional Character\u201d: Investigating Videogame Players\u2019 Emotional Attachments to Non-Player Characters by Jacqueline Burgess, Christian Jones This study investigated players\u2019 emotional attachment to two non-player characters from BioWare\u2019s\u00a0Mass Effect\u00a0trilogy. Qualitative analysis of forum posts found players expressed intense emotional … Continue reading “Game Studies vol 20, issue 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}