Publications in Scientific Journals:
F. Kayali, P. Purgathofer:
"Two Halves of Play";
Eludamos - Journal for Computer Game Culture,
http://www.eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/issue/view/4/showToc
(2008),
Vol 2 Issue 1;
22 pages.
English abstract:
"Forward," the highlighted Tomahawk and Rider units respond as they move across the mapped territory of a hill to a treasure guarded by two bears they must now kill. The WarChiefs, an expansion of the Age of Empires III Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for the PC, uses both Western and Native representations in game mechanics, sound, image, text, and narrative. This paper compares Indigenous and Western perspectives of interactivity, narrative, and space and time in a close reading of single-player campaign Fire and Shadow. In doing so, this paper asks: How does The WarChiefs, and thus the RTS genre, signify colonialist design aesthetic?
Keywords:
games design entertainment-computing
Electronic version of the publication:
http://www.eludamos.org/index.php/eludamos/article/view/24/45
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