Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
“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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