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The Mountains We Make: Eine medienästhetische Analyse psychischer Störungen in CELESTE
(2020)CELESTE (Matt Makes Games 2018) is a game about climbing a mountain. But it is also a game about protagonist Madeline’s struggle with her mental disorder, specifically depression and anxiety attacks. Embodied by a dark ... -
»Do you see it now? Do you see it like I do?«: Unreliability and the Unstable Narrating Mind in DEAR ESTHER (2012) and LAYERS OF FEAR (2016)
(2020)After drawing connections between theories of unreliable narration and depictions of mental instability, this article explores ways in which subjectivity can become manifest in video games. In the subsequent analysis of ... -
Politische Transferprozesse in digitalen Spielen: Eine Begriffsgeschichte
(2020)In digital games, we learn. On the one hand, transfer processes in digital games are no longer doubted, at least in research. On the other hand, however, there is a lack of generally accessible and concrete research results. ... -
First Person Mental Illness: Digitale Geisteskrankheit als immersive Selbsterfahrung
(2020)This article examines the increasing ludic implementation of mental illnesses in digital games. It especially focuses on display techniques and the benefits and drawbacks of games that utilize a first- or third-person view ... -
Psychiatrische Kliniken als totale Institutionen in digitalen Spielen
(2020)Time and time again derelict psychiatric institutions and rogue inmates serve as settings and antagonists in cultural narratives, and digital games are no exception. The eeriness of exploring what Erving Goffman calls ... -
Vulnerabilität und Verantwortung: Ethische Implikationen der Produktion und Rezeption von Pathographien
(2020)For thousands of years, artists have been fascinated by illness and pain. However, representing the life of the sick in a work of art raises specific ethical challenges – regardless of whether this pathography (i.e. a ... -
Äskulap im Wandel: Konzepte von Gesundheit und Krankheit
(2020)Regardless of their increasing relevance in contemporary social discourse, binding definitions for crucial concepts such as health and illness are either continuously contested or absent altogether. This paper highlights ... -
Games for Health – Spiele der Biopolitik
(2020)This article discusses the phenomenon of Games for Health from a perspective of biopolitical theory. Games for Health is an emerging type of digital game which has ›health‹ as its topic. This includes very different aspects, ... -
Zwischen Pathologisierung und Enhancement: Formen der Medikalisierung digitaler Spiele
(2020)The term »medicalization« describes a process in which non-medical problems are explained and solved in medical terms. This often happens through the definition of disease categories. Medicalization as a multifactorial ... -
Designing Self-Care: Affect and Debility in #SELFCARE
(2020)Are games addicting, anxiety-provoking, and manipulative, or are they calming, connecting, and healing? This paper looks at the companion game app #SELFCARE by studio TRU LUV and collaborator Eve Thomas alongside affect ... -
Games for Health: Herausforderungen einer sachgerechten Entwicklung von Lernspielen am Beispiel von SANTRAIN
(2020)Serious Games are often employed in the health sector. Games for health, e.g., for diagnostic purpose, education, and training, are used to address tasks as diverse as rehabilitation, cancer awareness, and understanding ... -
Worum es sich zu spielen lohnt: Krankheit im Brettspiel am Beispiel von PANDEMIE
(2020)The cooperative board game PANDEMIC invites players to fight four deadly diseases which are spreading worldwide. The paper examines the implications of picking disease as the theme for a board game. ›Disease‹ is a normative ... -
Transcending a Black-Box Theory: of Gaming and Medicine Seeing Disease through an Eco-Epidemiological Model in TRAUMA TEAM
(2020)This chapter explores the epidemiological framework of disease constructed in the 2010 Wii-console release TRAUMA TEAM (Atlus Games). By fabricating the antagonistic »Rosalia virus« as an ailment of insidious phases, ... -
Wunderpille Games!? Mit digitalem Spiel gegen reale Krankheiten
(2020)Video games are fascinating. Therefore it is not surprising that their motivational potential has been discussed in various disciplines. (Serious) Games for Health are specifically designed for the health-care industry and ... -
»Dude, How Much Health Do You Have Left?«: On Masculinity and the Rationalization of Health in Video Games
(2020)Many video games reinforce a rationalizing logic of self-care through the use of health management tools like hit points and health bars. This paper attempts to problematize the quantification of health in games by situating ... -
Von Drachen und Zellmutationen: Eine komparative Analyse der Repräsentationen von Krebserkrankungen am Beispiel von RE-MISSION und THAT DRAGON, CANCER
(2020)Cancer, a hyponym for serious contemporary diseases, concerns a growing number of patients each year since research has significantly improved and patients can be diagnosed early. While many cases seem to be preventable, ... -
Das Spiel mit der Psychose: Das Erleben geistiger Krankheit in WHAT REMAINS OF EDITH FINCH
(2020)This article argues that video games carry tremendous potential in furthering public understanding of mental illnesses. WHAT REMAINS OF EDITH FINCH is considered as an example to demonstrate, focusing on the specific ... -
The House and the Infected Body: The Metonymy of RESIDENT EVIL 7
(2020)RESIDENT EVIL 7, in articulating the threat of infectious mold, situates the illness with the feminine: Historical, cultural, and physiological connections between mold and women gives the game license to limit, objectify, ...