Video games present different meanings of death than those conditioned by social and cultural contexts. Most games treat the motif of death instrumentally. Therefore, death is usually a norm and a rule in typical video ...

Digital games and theatre seem to have similar identity. This may be observed in similar art techniques used in both media. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how theatre as a medium is represented in digital games. ...

Video games are one of the most popular leisure activities. The multitude of games and ways of playing (individually, in a team, online, offline, etc.) allows players to meet their various needs. Thus, from the point of ...

This paper proposes introducing a new category to describe certain digital games – “game-satire” (“gropowiastka”) – similar to literary philosophical satires. The author takes as his point of departure the term “game-story” ...

The aim of the article is to present examples of already existing theories about the experience of failure in digital games and then propose a different approach to it. Firstly, it shows the way Csíkszentmihályi’s flow ...

The article will discuss issues that show the connection between the culture of video games and its accompanying technology in relation to space – its functionality and ways of shaping, as an area requiring not only research ...

The aim of the article is to illustrate how the historical past of France could be revised in digital games. Two Lankhor games (Le Manoir de Mortevielle and Maupiti Island) were used for research purposes, analyzed using ...

Computer games are an interactive form of entertainment that is popular with younger and younger players. Therefore researchers are actively seeking information on the consequences of pursuing this type of pastime. At the ...

The article is an attempt to analyze a hitherto undescribed series of educational digital games for children „Komputerowa Gratka 3D” (Egmont Polska 2006– 2010) in terms of their cultural functions. For this purpose, the ...