Description

• Title:
  The material world of digital fictions
• Creator:
  Janik , Justyna
• Description:
  This paper explores the interdependency between digital matter and the representational or mimetic layer of the digital game object. The main aim is to foreground the mechanisms by which the representationalelements of the game world emerge from the materiality of the process of play. These mechanisms are examined from the perspective of the ontology of the game object. The issue of digital materiality will be linked with the aesthetical explorations of Tadeusz Kantor, who emphasised the relation between the materiality of the theatre and its fictional elements. As the main example of this analysis, I will focus on Undertale (Toby Fox, 2015) as an example of a game that plays with the boundaries between the fictional world being presented and the elements of digital materiality that are usually hidden from the player’s sight.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Justyna Janik
• Date:
  2021.06.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł recenzowany
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Vol. 29 No. 38 (2021): The Special Issue: The Structure of Video Games; 57-72;
  Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication; Tom 29 Nr 38 (2021): The Special Issue: The Structure of Video Games; 57-72;
  2720-040X;
  1731-450X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/29828/26417
• Subject:
  digital materiality;
  Tadeusz Kantor;
  fiction;
  Undertale
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/article/view/29828
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
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• Type:
  text