In recent years, an increasing number of games have created spaces which radically depart from our experience of space in reality. Digital games have used clandestine relocations of the avatar and semi-scripted reconfigurations of game spaces to great effect. Often characterised as non-Euclidean, virtual environments such as these foreground otherwise barely noticeable principles of navigation. Drawing on the well-established theories of game spatiality, neuroscience, and developmental psychology, this article investigates how two of the most well-known and extreme examples, Antichamber (Demruth 2013) and P. T. (7780s Studios [Kojima Productions] 2014), defamiliarize game spaces and their navigation. The result is an identification of shared aesthetic principles of non-Euclidean game spaces, which evoke fundamental disorientation and helplessness by withholding information we learn to rely on in reality at an early age for basic cognitive processes.
The Aesthetics of Non-Euclidean Game Spaces:Multistability and Object Permanence in "Antichamber" and "P.T."
01.01.2021
Backe , H-J 2021 , The Aesthetics of Non-Euclidean Game Spaces : Multistability and Object Permanence in "Antichamber" and "P.T." . in M Bonner (ed.) , Game | World | Architectonics : Transdisciplinary Approaches on Structures and Mechanics, Levels and Spaces, Aesthetics and Perception . Heidelberg press , Heidelberg , pp. 153-167 . https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.752.c10385
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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