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T1 Embodying environmental relationship: a comparative ecocritical analysis of journey and unravel
A1 Guanio-Uluru, Lykke
K1 Ecocritical game analysis
K1 Game design
K1 Semiotic register
K1 Embodiment
K1 Player-to-landscape relationship
K1 Análisis ecocrítico del juego
K1 Diseño de juego
K1 Registro semiótico
K1 Relación jugador-paisaje
K1 Personificación
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB Departing from Jane Suzanne Carroll’s contention that “Landscapes are at once geographical and historical, natural and cultural, experienced and represented, and present a spatial interface between human culture and physical terrain” (2), this article draws on game studies (Aarseth; Sicart; Yee; Isbister) and on discussions of game design (Schell; Chen; Sahlin) to analyse the landscape and avatar design of “Journey” and “Unravel”. Developing the term “semiotic register” as an analytical lens, the article seeks to pin-point the means by which the two games move the player to adopt distinctly different attitudes and relationships to the games’ natural scenes. The article starts by positioning the study in relation to previous ecocritical analyses of games (Backe; Bianchi; Bohunicky; Chang; Lehner; Parham) and by discussing some aspects of indirect player management before analysing and comparing the two games in more detail.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50001
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50001
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024