“Awe” is a category of emotion within the spectrum of self-transcendent experiences. Awe
has wellness benefits, with feelings of social interconnectivity and increased life satisfaction …

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a
player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new …

Located within the more encompassing project of a genuinely transmedial narratology, this
article's focus is twofold: on the one hand, it aims to further our understanding of strategies of …

A life story's ability to evoke the emotion experienced by a protagonist is crucial to its
success. Authors of interactive life stories sometimes strategically alter the interactive …

This article provides a meta-theoretical overview of the central research questions, concepts,
and lines of conflict at the nexus between media and emotions. It interrogates key terms …

Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing
to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a …

The gaming industry faces several challenges, such as inefficient development processes,
shorter product lifecycles, dynamic knowledge, high staff turnover, and heterogeneous IT …

Cognitive decline is one of the primary concerns in the elderly population. Serious games
have been used for different purposes related to elderly care, such as physical therapy …

Abstract Drawing on Janet Murray (1997), Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (2004), and
other previous proposals, this article conceptualizes player agency as the possibility space …

It is already a truism that consumer virtual reality (VR) systems offer sensorially immersive
first-person experiences that differ markedly from those begat by traditional screen displays …