Intro: mechanics as messages
Brenda Romero - gaming for understanding
- games can have a profound effect on culture
- Train: play it
- games can radically change people's opinions on sensitive topics
Ludonarrative Dissonance - what the game is about
Errant Signal - The debate that never took place
- The words narratology and ludology were created for the new discipline of studying game design mechanics and narrative
TASK: 2000 work essay taking a critically and contextually aware perspective on one or two games - with all the freedom and depth which video game studies offers us.
- there is no single fixed methodology, you're going to be finding your own approach, Merlin will introduce you to examples of these
- you're going to be choosing your own essay question, and looking in depth at a game you find significant, innovative and controversial
Play: - Darkest Dungeon
- undertale
- papers please
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