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Gameplay and historical consciousness in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II (Bioware)
Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1522-1626
2012 (English)In: Meaningful Play 2012 Conference Proceedings, 2012Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This article deals with the historical consciousness in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II (2009-2011 BioWare) which is a single-player third-person role-playing video game series within the fantasy-medieval context. In order to know how gameplay operates with its dystopian fictional present, the article analyzes how the two video games create a spatial and temporal connection between past, present and future in a fictional history inspired by dystopian Sword and Sorcery-fantasy. This article is based on the assumption that understanding the projective identity through a Playing Character (PC) as a part of a flow of time with a past, a present and a future in the game, is a crucial part of the gameplay. This article stresses that the two games within the series turn out differently according to the gameplay; Dragon Age: Origins develop from an apocalyptic and dystopian place (a world full of threats) into a eutopian place (a good location) whereas Dragon Age II remains in a dystopian plot.

 

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2012.
Keywords [en]
Historical consciousness, gameplay, role-playing, fantasy, Dragon Age, Video
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Humanities, History Education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18549OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-18549DiVA, id: diva2:1474112
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Meaningful Play, October 18 - 20, 2012 in East Lansing, on the campus of Michigan State University, MI, USA
Available from: 2020-10-07 Created: 2020-10-07 Last updated: 2022-04-26Bibliographically approved

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