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Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks
2021
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games—the role of fictional reliefs and reality checks in shaping aesthetic engagement—before arguing that from this a partial analogy can be developed stemming from a feature that distinguishes most games from most traditional fictions: the presence of
doi:10.1093/jaac/kpab058
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