Video Game Academia
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Making friends and saving the world through academic discourse about video games.
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Readings
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…
The Legend (and Brutality) of Brutal Legend
Our story begins with one of the greatest video game developers of all time: LucasArts. LucasArts started life as Lucasfilm Games in 1979, originally created by George Lucas himself in an effort to explore the artistic possibilities of video games, shortly after the success of Star Wars. In creating Lucasfilm Games, Lucas worked closely with…
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