Ontology of Gender in Computer Games

Mosca, Ivan

doi:10.4000/map.1631

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“…Very few computer games require the players to follow rules. And they are online transpositions of boardgames (Mosca, 2011a). The two most popular simulators of the card game Magic The Gathering (Garfield, 1993) are Magic Workstation (Magi-Soft, 2002) and Magic Online (Leaping Lizard, 2002) and they differ exactly on this point: the former makes use of rules (and players can cheat without cracking the code), whereas the latter present just on screen affordances.…”

Section: The K-rule Of Game Studiesmentioning

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Mosca

2013

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations

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The relation between games and simulations can be profitably investigated by combining ontological tools and recent neurological findings. Neurology shows that simulations are connected to fiction or to reality by a suspension of disbelief or alternatively a suspension of belief, and ontological categories of Mimesis (simulation of an event or an object) and Catharsis (simulation of the experience of an event or object) lead to a classification of ludic simulations, which allow to discover some of their hidden properties. This paper raises some new issues for the field, like Embodied Simulation, Simulations of Depth and of Surface, the Ontological and the Epistemological Barrier, the Simulation Story, and the K-Rule. Finally, some wittgensteinian tools (semantic, syntactic, infra-semantic, and super-syntactic) are used in order to suggest how to transform a simulation into a ludic simulation.

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Section: The K-rule Of Game Studiesmentioning

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Mosca

2013

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations

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Sémiologie des toilettes

Jullier¹

2023

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Cet article traite de la signalétique indiquant aux usagers de toilettes publiques laquelle des deux portes ils doivent pousser, « Hommes » ou « Femmes ». Les pictogrammes, à cet endroit, s’efforcent de mobiliser des universaux, en l’occurrence des signes visuels de distinction sexuelle saisissables sans compétences particulières par le plus grand nombre possible de personnes. Mais les vrais universaux sont rares. L’article passe en revue les dénotations et connotations des pictogrammes les plus courants, en utilisant quelques outils heuristiques venus de la sémiologie, des études de genre, de la psychologie et de la sociologie interactionniste.

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Ontology of Gender in Computer Games

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

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Sémiologie des toilettes

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