The authoritative version is published in DiGRA 2025 conference proceedings https://doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2025i2.2461 Petri Lankoski (Södertörn University, Sweden) & Tanja Välisalo (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) ABSTRACT Parties and partying appear in single-player videogames but have been studied little. In this paper, we investigate how parties are used and represented in videogames. In this explorative study, we analyzedContinue reading “Parties, partying, and party games in single-player videogames”
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Talk “Sexism and sexuality in games” by David Gaider
Many nice details about the reactions to the romances in Bioware games: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/194571/Video_Sexism_and_sexuality_in_games.php GDC Vault video (not behind a paywall)
Unethical Research?
Malena Ivarsson et al. put 12-15 year old children to play Animaniacs and Manhunt to see if there is different effects on playing these games (http://www.su.se/forskning/ledandeforskning/samhallsvetenskap/stress-arbete-och-halsa/valdsamma-dataspel-paverkar-kroppen-1.79509) Can you see any issues here? The Pegi rating of the Manhunt is 18, because it contains extreme violence. Hence, it is not meant to be played by 12-15Continue reading “Unethical Research?”
Petri Lankoski 