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Transmedia Storytelling

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Transmedia Storytelling is a concept that explains the distribution of media content across multiple media platforms. In a multi-layered media landscape, content is no longer confined to one medium, but rather works across media boundaries.
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Sublimity in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Paper
Bethany Maclachlan
17/12/2021
14 minutes to read

This paper investigates how the game Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture creates a sublime experience for players. It reveals that the game explores concepts relating to sublimity which enable an experience that could be considered sublime.

TACOMA(2017) (Steve Gaynor, Nina Freeman)

Review
Daniel Obubo
12/12/2021
11 minutes to read

This review explores the procedural and rhetorical rules involved in videogames as well as narrative and database aesthetic techniques utilized in the 2017 adventure videogame Tacoma.

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Games, Gaming and Culture

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Gaming has not only become a multibillion industry, it is now a sports and a network of different socio-cultural scenes. In this Diggit file, our authors dig deep into the world of gaming by focusing on gaming from different angles. 

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Alice in Wonderland and the power of medium

Paper
Rebecca de Jongh
16/08/2021
6 minutes to read

A beloved story like Alice in Wonderland can completely change if the narrative is told through a different medium, such as a video game. 

The Suspicious Comeback of FMV Games

Article
Inge van de Ven
05/05/2021
19 minutes to read

Full Motion Video (FMV) games, which were popular in the early and mid-nineties but then became outdated, are making a surprising comeback. The lack of interactivity the genre is often derided for is precisely its strength.

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"[CLICK HERE]": how mobile game commercials use Facebook's algorithm

Article
Szymon Zbiegniewski
11/01/2021
9 minutes to read

Mobile game commercials abuse Facebook's algorithm to increase the number of players. How do these commercials make use of various mechanics to reach this goal?