Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
Ce numéro spécial de Loading… regroupe une partie des communications du colloque international « Penser après la tombée de la nuit: Bienvenue dans le monde des jeux vidéo d’horreur » qui a eu lieu à Montréal en avril 2009 et qui a réuni des chercheurs du monde entier s’intéressant à
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Cet article pose les jalons d’une nouvelle approche théorique de la question du genre, la pragmatique des effets génériques. Cette approche permet de résoudre les problèmes qui découlent du phénomène de l’hybridité générique, une difficulté qui limite l’analyse formelle d’objets culturels d’un point de vue générique. Ce nouveau paradigme donne
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This paper provides a critical overview of the notion of genre in game studies and in the video game industry, and establishes that genre is rooted not in game mechanics, but in game aesthetics; that is, play-experiences that share a phenomenological and pragmatic quality, regardless of their technical implementation.
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The cognitive process of gameplay is modeled as more than a circle, but a dynamic evolving process: the magic cycle. Playing a game is an ever-increasing mastery as the spirals get wider, tackling higher-order questions through guesswork and trial-and-error in the heuristic spirals of gameplay and narrative.
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Interactive cinema has left an impressive corpus seemingly forgotten. In this research, we call attention to the significant historical heritage of FMV (full-motion video) games. Beside its cinematographic appeal, we study its ergodic dimension, leading to our concepts of figures of interactivity and actional modalities.
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How and why do video games tell stories? Through the battlefield of ludology and narratology in video game studies, this master’s thesis finds that narration, as a process, is intrinsic to video game playing, independently of the « cut-scenes » often favored in interactive storytelling. A novel perspective on a
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Like comic books and television before them, video games have had their
share in the spotlight of social debates. This chapter summarizes issues with violence (Death Race, Mortal Kombat, Doom), sexual content (Night Trap, Grand Theft Auto), or ideology (JFK: Reloaded, Bully, Rule of Rose).
This paper studies the Guitar Hero video game as a simulation. This is done by examining the game controller and the visual interface, and how they work to accurately simulate the act of playing the guitar.
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