Tomb of Annihilation reveals its anticipated audience as predominantly White by playing heavily into these themes, relying upon players' cultural capital in fantasy media depicting colonized spaces.
Read MoreIf there's one aspect of the game industry that is as mysterious as game design, it's game analysis. A review is meant to put an objective measure on the quality of a game for the consumer, whereas an analysis is meant to study a game and figure out whether or not the design worked as intended.
Read MoreThe aim of this research is, following the example of Litherland,23 to analyze the quality of the player experience while accounting for a range of factors: the emotions of the players; the agents involved; the institutions like the rules of the game or the framing of game context which indicates the process in which the participants negotiate a shared understanding and conventions in interpreting said rules;25 and lastly the contexts which may refer to the physical medium in which the game in played.
Read More