To Love The Other(s) Duty: How to harness a citizen in Death Stranding

This essay was written during a seminar on games & citizenship in 2021. Introduction  The game Death Stranding is known and respected for its complex story (Clark 2019), as are most games by Hideo Kojima. However, the game received after releasing much criticism for its mechanics and overall gameplay. The criticism mostly referred to gameplay, …

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Exercises in Immorality: Papers, Please as a Cynical Serious Game

This report was produced during a seminar on non-entertainment games in 2020. When I was given the topic of experience in the context of non-entertainment games, the first thing I was looking for were games that made use of their gameplay to provide experiences that transcended the normative understanding of pleasure and entertainment. Games that …

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