Video Game Academia
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Making friends and saving the world through academic discourse about video games.
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Readings
What is a Zelda Game?
Zelda, we need to talk. We’ve been in a relationship for a long time now. I first played an emulated copy of Link’s Awakening before I even owned a Game Boy, probably thirty years ago now. I remember going to friends’ houses and playing A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time for the…
Theory into Practice: hian, Patrick Holleman, and Dr Schmid
Congratulations, constant companion and perennial party member Alexander Schmid, on completing the PhD on Dante! Select Academic Articles: Dante and Video Game Adaptations: An Analysis of Dantean Elements in Dante’s Inferno, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII: https://penn.manifoldapp.org/read/dante-and-video-game-adaptations-an-analysis-of-dantean-elements-in-dante-s-inferno-devil-may-cry-and-final-fantasy-vii-and-final-fantasy-viii/section/0150d052-744b-44a6-a86f-ec527f703d722) Contrapasso, Violence, and Madness in Dante’s The Divine Comedy and Westworld: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/5/1093) Popularizing Paradiso: On the Difficulties…
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