Art games are unique works which go beyond offering players the fun of playing. As a mixed form placed between social games, new media art and tactical media, art games look for new challenges for players, aiming to enrich the reception experience. In this paper, art games are exemplified by selected works of Anna Anthropy, which – making use of the artistic convention – are becoming the metadiscoursive medium that encourages the player to critical reflection about video games and the user status.
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Procedural rhetoric is a methodological concept proposed by Ian Bogost. It allows to examine the ideology of a game considering both its mechanics and aesthetics. One of the means of procedural rhetoric is rhetoric of failure – using failure for persuasive purposes.The article elaborates on examples of using failure as a semantic and persuasive measure, especially in art games and serious games, and contrasts these means of expression with dominant tendencies in mainstream videogames.
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