RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Digital games about the materiality of digital games
T2 Juegos digitales sobre la materialidad de los juegos digitales
A1 Nguyen, Josef
K1 Digital games
K1 Materiality
K1 Responsibility
K1 Dwelling
K1 Fun
K1 Juegos digitales
K1 Materialidad
K1 Responsabilidad
K1 Morada
K1 Diversión
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB This article investigates the potential for digital games to advance environmentally responsible attitudes by attending to their own material conditions, since the production, consumption, and disposal of games and the platforms on which they run enact ecological harm. I examine how Tomorrow Corporation’s puzzle game "Little Inferno" (2012) and Molleindustria’s political mobile game "Phone Story" (2011) address their own participation in ecological harm through rendering visible the very games themselves being played as material commodities. In doing so, they acknowledge their own complicity as well as that of their players in existing processes of environmental degradation. Moreover, both games challenge conventional expectations of fun as harmless or inconsequential, since this environmental destruction results from digital entertainment. I argue that digital games advancing environmentally responsible attitudes must address the ecological devastation tied to their materiality as well as support players in accepting responsibility for and remedying the harm players enact. Consequently, digital games of environmental responsibility must also question the dominant mode of fun that drives ecological devastation by reminding us that we dwell in a world where we need to be responsible for the fun we choose to have.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/31378
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/31378
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024