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Title: | Virtual world-weariness : on delaying the experiential erosion of digital environments |
Other Titles: | The architectonics of game spaces : the spatial logic of the virtual and its meaning for the real |
Authors: | Gualeni, Stefano |
Keywords: | Games Games -- Design Video games Virtual reality Existentialism Virtual reality -- Equipment and supplies |
Issue Date: | 2020-01 |
Publisher: | Transcript |
Citation: | Gualeni, S. (2019). Virtual world-weariness : on delaying the experiential erosion of digital environments. In A. Gerber & U. Goetz (Eds.), The architectonics of game spaces : the spatial logic of the virtual and its meaning for the real (pp. 153-165). Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript. |
Abstract: | A common understanding of the role of a game developer includes establishing (or at least partially establishing) what is interactively and perceptually available in (video)game environments: what elements and behaviors those worlds include and allow, and what is – instead – left out of their ‘possibility horizon’. The term ‘possibility horizon’ references the Ancient Greek origin of the term ‘horizon’, ὄρος (oros), which denotes a frontier – a spatial limit. On this etymological foundation, ‘horizon’ is used here to indicate the spatial and operational boundaries that a (video)game environment affords its players. This book chapter discusses a particular feeling that emerge in relation to playful encounters with the ‘possibility horizons’ of videogames. I am referring here to the realization, as a player, that a game environment can be experientially exhausted and is, as such, ultimately banal. In other words, I will examine how our deliberate engagement with the interactive environments of digital games can trigger sensations that are analogous to what Romantic authors referred to as Weltschmerz (‘world-weariness’). |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/47783 |
ISBN: | 9783839448021 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsDG |
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