Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)

Cullen, Amanda L. L.; Scully-Blaker, Rainforest; Larson, Ian; Brewster, Kat; Aceae, Ryan Rose; Dunkel, William

doi:10.1080/15295036.2022.2080845

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“…Over the past few decades, feminist and queer scholarship have made visible and given voice to the experiences of people previously marginalized within the game industry (Cullen et al, 2022). It is now well-established that exclusionary practices based on gender, gender identity, sexual preference, race, class, and ability, run through gaming cultures, and that the content of games reflects a similar unchecked toxicity in the social order (TaeHyuk Keum & Hearns, 2022).…”

Section: Game Studies and Game Designmentioning

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Playful by Design: A Third Space Community of Practice for Game Studies & Design

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2024

IJGSI

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This paper traces the history and development of Playful by Design, a cross-campus initiative at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from which the interdisciplinary Game Studies & Design program emerged. Interdisciplinary collaborations bridge differences between academic cultures and can spur innovative research and new programs and initiatives. Games, understood both as objects of study and as a methodology for conducting research on topics other than games, are moving into the mainstream within multiple academic disciplines; that doesn’t mean that interdisciplinary game studies must disappear as an intellectual endeavor. Playful by Design has become a local and global community of practice in which shared and overlapping interests in game-relevant research of all kinds, but also design, pedagogy, and technology, provide a durable interdisciplinary third space. As a network, it can welcome multidisciplinary activities pursued by teachers, scholars, artists, and designers within their own disciplines and in their own ways. Through creative collaborations, the sharing of resources, and the growth of team-based studio work and other experiential learning, this approach facilitates the emergence of transdisciplinary and glocal aspirations. These include shared values of accessibility and inclusion, reflected in how we teach and conduct research, and in the design and creation of games, simulations, and other interactive and immersive experiences that address the critical shared challenges of our times.

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Section: Game Studies and Game Designmentioning

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Playful by Design: A Third Space Community of Practice for Game Studies & Design

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2024

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Theorising the Uncanny Adaptation through Hamlet

Bergan

2023

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Adaptations possess an uncanny quality, especially when those adaptations are built on tragic narratives. When audiences see the same characters relive the same plots in different contexts, what was once familiar becomes unfamiliar, and a kind of haunting is produced. Adaptations that move across mediums from stage to film to video games carry an especially prominent potential for uncanniness. Using adaptations of Hamlet and specifically the video game, Elsinore, to track this evolution reveals that the temporal ambiguity that the uncanny adaptation produces within a tragic narrative carries the potential to enact ethical aims, while also suggesting a way forward in thinking about that narrative’s future. By first defining the uncanny adaptation and examining Elsinore as a case study, this article explores the ethical potential that is made possible through the uncanny elements of tragic adaptation.

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Game studies, futurity, and necessity (or the game studies regarded as still to come)

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Playful by Design: A Third Space Community of Practice for Game Studies & Design

Playful by Design: A Third Space Community of Practice for Game Studies & Design

Theorising the Uncanny Adaptation through Hamlet

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