| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Defining ethical gameplay -- 3. Being a game -- 4. The player, the player -- 5. The design of ethical gameplay -- 6. Into play -- 7. This is the end |
| Summary |
How computer games can be designed to create ethically relevant experiences for players |
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"Today's blockbuster video games -- and their never-ending sequels, sagas, and reboots -- provide plenty of excitement in high-resolution but for the most part fail to engage a player's moral imagination. In Beyond Choices, Miguel Sicart calls for a new generation of video and computer games that are ethically relevant by design. In the 1970s, mainstream films -- including The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver -- filled theaters but also treated their audiences as thinking beings. Why can't mainstream video games have the same moral and aesthetic impact? Sicart argues that it is time for games to claim their place in the cultural landscape as vehicles for ethical reflection. Sicart looks at games in many manifestations: toys, analog games, computer and video games, interactive fictions, commercial entertainments, and independent releases. Drawing on philosophy, design theory, literary studies, aesthetics, and interviews with game developers, Sicart provides a systematic account of how games can be designed to challenge and enrich our moral lives. After discussing such topics as definition of ethical gameplay and the structure of the game as a designed object, Sicart offers a theory of the design of ethical game play. He also analyzes the ethical aspects of game play in a number of current games, including Spec Ops: The Line, Beautiful Escape: Dungeoneer, Fallout New Vegas, and Anna Anthropy's Dys4Ia. Games are designed to evoke specific emotions; games that engage players ethically, Sicart argues, enable us to explore and express our values through play." |
| Analysis |
Ethical gameplay |
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Video game design |
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GAME STUDIES/Game Design |
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PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost eBook Collection, viewed October 17, 2013) |
| Subject |
Video games -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Video games -- Philosophy
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GAMES -- Board.
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Video games -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013007680 |
| ISBN |
9781461941705 |
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1461941709 |
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0262317125 |
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9780262317122 |
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9780262317115 |
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0262317117 |
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9780262317139 |
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0262317133 |
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