Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is
defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against …

Ph. D. on studying games, game play, and game design Aki Järvinen defends his Ph. D.,
titled Games without Frontiers: Theories and Methods for Game Studies and Design for the …

Emotionally evocative games hold great potential for both industry and our basic
understanding about human affect. The question of how best games elicit and respond to …

To state that scary video games—or games that have commonly been labeled “survival
horror”—are the video game genre par excellence has become, for me, a sort of jingle used …

One main function of sound in games is to create and enhance emotional impact. The
expressive model for game sound has its tradition in sound design for linear audiovisual …

This study interrogates if newsgames are meaningful supplements to already existing forms
of journalism. Using the case of refugee and migrant issues, this study examines how the …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

The paper considers the recent academic struggle between" narratologists" and"
ludologists", and argues that it was exacerbated by two sources of confusion. The first …

Understanding Video Games as Emotional Experiences Page 1 CHAPTER 5 Understanding
Video Games as Emotional Experiences AKI JÄRVINEN Video game studies should delve …

Digital games are a wide, diverse and fast developing art form, and it is important to analyse
games that are pushing the medium forward to see what design lessons can be learned …