GAMES STUDIES - JOURNAL
29/03/2022 Hansel Ribowo (0350008) / BDCM Journal Lectures Historically, games were a luxury , the internet , your mobile phones . First Olympic games were a tribute. Cultural games such as gasing, or chinese chess, they were games that origins as a tribute. Studying game creation and gameplays from: The nature of games Theoretical and conceptual perspectives Cultural perspectives Post-Modernism (cultural critique) → The phase we’re living now Everything in question Uncertainty Sense of Identity, Existentialism → Questioning everything Post-structuralist views (critique) Critique of structuralist views Cultural conditioning - biases Simulacra and hyperrealism (redefinition) - Jean Baudrillard models of real without origin - a hyperreality hyperreal world - e.g. ‘Disneyland’ Game Violence Debate Violent games have ...