Values between Systems: Designing Ethical Gameplay

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Author(s): Miguel Sicart (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 15
Source title: Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values through Play
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Karen Schrier (Columbia University, USA)and David Gibson (University of Vermont, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-845-6.ch001

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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In this chapter the authors define ethical gameplay as a consequence of game design choices. The authors propose an analytical model that defines ethical gameplay as an experience that stems from a particular set of game design decisions. These decisions have in common a design method, called ethical cognitive dissonance, based on the conscious creative clash between different models of agency in a game. This chapter outlines this method and its application in different commercial computer games.

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