Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
A review of the international premiere of Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, screened during the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal on July 27th, 2014, and published on the Kinephanos blog. Une critique de la première internationale de Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, présenté au festival international du
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“Back in the day”, as we might say, Espen Aarseth warned game studies researchers against “theoretical imperialism” (1997, p.16), that is, the blind copy-pasting of theories from another field onto games, as if they were a kind of literature, or a kind of cinema. To rework the old spatial metaphor
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I currently see two promising ways in which narrative game research could productively bridge the contents/expression, object/process divide: 1) by studying particular narrative figures or tropes, such as the fail/retry cycle in games, or a phenomenon I recently coined “pandiegetic conspiracies”, where it seems like the entirety of the fictional
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This paper presents the research project of the INTEGRAE team. It aims to unravel the links between graphical technologies and innovation in the games industry and in gamer culture by focusing on a specific historical corpus: the transition from 2D to 3D graphics in the 1990s. This transition is of
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Technological innovation in the video games industry is a rich area of research that has barely been explored as of yet. It is usually taken for granted in game historiography that “[g]ame graphics were, and to a large extent still are, the main criteria by which advancing video game technology
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Critique de l’exposition « Une histoire de jeux vidéo » tenue au Musée de la Civilisation à Québec du 24 avril 2013 au 16 mars 2014. Première exposition de ce genre au Québec, elle est en fait une reprise de l’exposition « Game Story : une histoire du jeu vidéo » qui a eu lieu
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Cet article distingue entre avatar et acteur pour théoriser le personnage dans la réconciliation de la narrativité et de l’interactivité à travers une étude théorique et critique de quelques stratégies employées par les concepteurs pour réaliser une fusion identitaire du joueur avec le personnage de jeu vidéo.
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In this paper, we examine the two highly relevant traditions of the simulation of space, and the simulation of the gaze, to develop an art history approach to video games rooted in the relationship of a gamer to the visual and play space implemented in the game. Parallel projection and
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