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I have been playing the DotA 2 Beta for 4 months now. I went in with skills and knowledge developed some 7 years earlier when I played its predecessors, Age of Strife and DotA on Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne’s custom maps. Let me tell you, I was pretty good back then. However, the game matured and became an e-sport, while I went on to seek greener pastures (infatuated with WoW for ~2300 hours). Coming …
For next week’s 5a7 Symposium Thorsten Busch will be holding an informal discussion on the design of moral choice and ethical dilemmas in video games. More details below:
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Title: “Moral choice in video games?”
Abstract: Many video game companies use “moral choice” as a promotional bullet point on their games. But most of them actually don’t present players with convincing, mature moral decisions. Instead, players usually only get to make “good vs. evil” decisions, mostly in the …
I just got back from the Philosophy of Computer Games Conference in Madrid last night and despite the jetlag, I have to say it was a really worthwhile experience. It reminded a bit of the Under the Mask conference I attended in Luton last year in terms of the intimate and fairly relaxed atmosphere. Small rooms, Spanish hours (meaning everything starts 30-60 minutes late) and frequent breaks all seemed to contribute to this. It was …
Cyber-ethics – Does the video game industry have a role to play in fostering a better digital citizenship?
As more and more games transition to partial or full digital platforms, online social interactions are permeating games of all types. From basic civility to issues of legality, new standards of cyber-ethics are being forged online and a new form of digital citizenship is emerging. As one of the world’s biggest hubs for …
This Friday the 15th Maude Bonenfant will be giving a talk titled: “A philosophical definition of game/play: how to have an ethical experience of a videogame?”
The talk will be held in the Hexagram Resource room (EV 11.705) at 1 PM.
Maude Bonenfant is a TAG’s postdoctoral researcher and is teaching at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She has completed a doctoral thesis in semiology on the video game World of Warcraft and the concept …