{"id":2691,"date":"2020-09-22T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:36:41","slug":"game-studies-20-3-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2020\/09\/22\/game-studies-20-3-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Studies 20\/3 is out"},"content":{"rendered":"

For your theoretical consideration: Game Studies volume 20, issue 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cElves are Jews with Pointy Ears and Gay Magic\u201d: White Nationalist Readings of\u00a0The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/em><\/a>
\nby <\/em>Kristian A. Bj\u00f8rkelo<\/small><\/p>\n

This article explores how White Nationalists on Stormfront interpret (decode) Skyrim in accordance with their own worldview and the affordances of the game. In their eyes the Nords are a Germanic people and \u201cElves are Jews with pointy ears and gay magic\u201d.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n

A Typology of Imperative Game Goals<\/a>
\nby <\/em>Michael S. Debus, Jos\u00e9 P. Zagal, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera<\/small><\/p>\n

This paper presents a typology of game goals to fill a gap in the literature regarding kinds of goals in games and how they are interrelated. We focus on ludic goals, instead of player created or narrative goals. The typology can be used for describing goal structures, how higher-level goals relate to lower levels and analyzing a games\u2019 design.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n

Sorry, Wrong Apocalypse:\u00a0Horizon Zero Dawn<\/em>,\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Vault<\/em>, and the Ecocritical Videogame<\/a>
\nby <\/em>Megan Condis<\/small><\/p>\n

This article is an examination of the ecocritical potential of Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerilla Games, 2017) and Heaven\u2019s Vault (inkle, 2019). I argue that to properly depict climate change, we must develop new narrative formats and game mechanics that showcase “slow violence” (Nixon 2011).[more]<\/a><\/p>\n

The New Lara Phenomenon: A Postfeminist Analysis of\u00a0Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/em><\/a>
\nby <\/em>Janine Engelbrecht<\/small><\/div>\n

Lara Croft, the heroine of the popular Tomb Raider videogame series, has undergone a major transformation after the series reboot 2013. The new representation of Lara Croft is a clear departure from the postfeminist action heroine archetype and is replicated in other post-2013 videogames with female protagonists.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Applying corpus linguistics to videogame data: Exploring the representation of gender in videogames at a lexical level<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

by <\/em>Frazer Heritage<\/span><\/div>\n
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This paper argues for applying corpus linguistics to videogames; a method that can reveal textual patterns in a corpus of games. This method is applied to gender representation in an example corpus, offering quantitative analysis of how discourses around social identities are (re)produced.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Historical Problem Space Framework: Games as a Historical Medium<\/a><\/div>\n
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by\u00a0<\/em>Jeremiah McCall<\/small><\/p>\n

Historical games present the past in terms of historical problem spaces: player agents with roles and goals that are contextualized in a virtual world whose features enable and constrain player action. The HPS framework helps us better understand the gamic medium of history, with utility for historical game scholars, educators, and game designers.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reconsidering\u00a0The Grasshopper<\/em>: On the Reception of Bernard Suits in Game Studies<\/a><\/div>\n
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by\u00a0<\/em>Liam Mitchell<\/small><\/p>\n

While Bernard Suits’s landmark book The Grasshopper is as playful as it is rigorous, scholars in game studies tend to reference it only for its apparently bloodless definition of gameplay. This paper responds to this reception by highlighting the productive ambiguities of the text, particularly the relationship between games and society.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Janky Controls and Embodied Play: Disrupting the Cybernetic Gameplay Circuit<\/a><\/div>\n
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by\u00a0<\/em>M. D. Schmalzer<\/small><\/p>\n

This article develops the concept of janky controls to disrupt the assumed cybernetic connection of player and game. Through this disruption, standard notions of player subjectivity is also disrupted allowing for more diverse players and videogame design practices.[more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For your theoretical consideration: Game Studies volume 20, issue 3. \u201cElves are Jews with Pointy Ears and Gay Magic\u201d: White Nationalist Readings of\u00a0The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Kristian A. Bj\u00f8rkelo This article explores how White Nationalists on Stormfront interpret (decode) Skyrim in accordance with their own worldview and the affordances of the game. In … Continue reading “Game Studies 20\/3 is out”<\/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-2691","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\/2691","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=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}