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Sprawczość i tożsamość w grach eksploracyjnych

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Felczak M.
Wielogłos
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2015
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issue 3(25)
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Agency and Indentity in the Exploration GamesThe article focuses on the connection between player’s agency and his identity in the exploration computer games. The aim of the article is to trace down the influence of various tools and interaction mechanics on ways in which players mark their presence in the game and convey their identities. The analysed titles include pure exploration games, like Proteus (Ed Key, David Kanaga, 2013) and MirrorMoon EP (Santa Ragione, 2013), as well as some titles which employ only selected mechanics of exploration games, such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda, 2011). Three main points of interest are examined in the article: 1) interfaces and mechanics in relation to player’s agency 2) tools that enable players to build their own narratives and shape the avatars 3) agency in the context of game goals and tasks assigned to a player by the game itself. The theoretical context of the article is linked to the Giorgio Agamben’s theory of dispositif.
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Polityki pracy i zabawy w popkulturowym przemyśle sieciowych gier komputerowych

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Felczak M.
Praktyka Teoretyczna
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2014
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vol. 14
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issue 4
111-130
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The article deals with the functioning of the on-line AAAgames in capitalist market circulation, with games understood as productssubject to trade exchange. The author analyzes the method of capitalizationof players’ productivity, such as the use of unpaid digital laborof fans, arguing that the game mechanics are often adjusted to the playbourparadigm. The mechanisms of modeling the reception and distributionof games are listed and described based on the example of Steamand methods of exploitation of the Real-Money Auction House in DiabloIII. Automating the process of the game is considered to be the mostefficient model of play, displacing traditionally understood explorationand interaction with other players.
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Artykuł dotyczy funkcjonowania w kapitalistycznym obiegu rynkowym sieciowych gier komputerowych segmentu AAA, rozumianych jako produkty podlegające wymianie towarowej. Autor analizuje metody kapitalizacji produktywności graczy, takie jak wykorzystywanie nieodpłatnej pracy fanów, stawiając tezę o dostosowywaniu mechanik gier do paradygmatu pracozabawy. Wymienione i opisane zostają mechanizmy modelowania odbioru i dystrybucji gier na przykładzie działania aplikacji Steam oraz metod eksploatacji walutowego domu aukcyjnego w grze Diablo III. Automatyzacja procesu rozgrywki zostaje uznana za najbardziej efektywny model interakcji, wypierający tradycyjnie rozumianą eksplorację i budowanie relacji z innymi graczami.
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Live Streaming Platforms and the Critical Discourse About Video Games

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Felczak M.
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2017
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vol. 4
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issue 1
19-37
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This work concerns online streaming platforms centered on broadcasting video games-related content, such as Twitch.tv and Douyu.com. The aim of this article is two-fold: first, to point out the possible research methods regarding online streaming services as mediums for video game criticism, and second, to assess the potential of these platforms for generating critical discourse about video games. The methodology of the research is based on Mia Consalvo’s take on paratextual frameworks and Veli-Matti Karhulahti’s notions of interview and play frames regarding the activity of video games streaming. In this article, the initial characterization of Twitch.tv and Douyu.com is followed by an analysis on how the work of streamers as content creators can influence the reception of video games. Afterwards, a reading of analyzed phenomena based on paratextual framework is proposed. The last section juxtaposes the initial findings with the perspective of changing viewership figures in relation to selected ludic properties of games. In conclusion, it is stated that the analyzed streaming platforms reflect the proliferating crowdsource trends in the video game industry, with forms of interacting with the product at various stages of its development cycle establishing new practices of talking in and about video games.
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