Playing at Colonization: Interpreting Imaginary Landscapes in the Video Game Tropico

Type de ressource

Article de revue

Auteur/contributeur

Magnet, Shoshana (Auteur)

Titre

Playing at Colonization: Interpreting Imaginary Landscapes in the Video Game Tropico

Résumé

This article coins the term gamescape to offer a way of thinking about the implications of the way in which landscape in video games is actively constructed within a particular ideological framework. The author examines the spatial practices used to construct the gamescape in Tropico and their attendant dangers. The author concludes with a discussion of the theming of this gamescape, and the way in which the trope of tropicalization is used to stabilize Tropico as an “Othered” space.

Publication

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Volume

30

Numéro

2

Pages

142-162

Date

2006

Langue

Anglais

DOI

10.1177/0196859905285320

ISSN

0196-8599

Titre abrégé

Playing at Colonization

URL

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5723862409

Catalogue de bibl.

WorldCat Discovery Service

Référence

Magnet, S. (2006). Playing at Colonization: Interpreting Imaginary Landscapes in the Video Game Tropico. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 30(2), 142‑162. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859905285320

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