Essays about: "game 2001"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words game 2001.

1. 1. Understanding temporal frames as a mechanic and  narrative device in video games : An analysis of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

   Author : Diana Håkansson; Sunniva Salomonsson; [2022]
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   Abstract : This study focuses on studying time mechanics and concepts in video games by using a method defined by Zagal and Mateas (2010) for analysing temporality (the understanding and  design of time) in video games. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (2001) was chosen because of its heavy themes surrounding time mechanics and manipulation. READ MORE

3. 2. Sexy 16-Year-Old Baby-Eater: Gendered, Sexualized, and Racialized Discourses in Exalted, Second Edition

   University essay from Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Niels-Martin Ström Josefsen; [2021-11-26]
   Keywords : Roleplaying games; Exalted; feminist post-structural discourse analysis; representation; geek culture; race; gender; sexuality; Dungeons Dragons; discourses; White Wolf; misogyny; fantasy; genre subversion; social constructivism; media tropes; monstrous women; monstrous motherhood; infantilization; trans representation; sexualization; animalization;

   Abstract : Previous research finds roleplaying games, as well as the wider spectrum of geek culture that they exist within, to be defined by discourses favoring a white, heterosexual, cis-male viewpoint, drawing up and reproducing stereotypes and tropes that are inherently misogynist, homophobic, and racist. Heretofore, research into discourses of gender, sexuality, and race in roleplaying games has focused overwhelmingly on market leader Dungeons & Dragons (1971- ongoing), largely neglecting to scrutinize other well-established titles that may adhere to or break from the same tendencies. READ MORE

4. 3. Gender representation through the horrors of Fatal frame (2001) : Textual analysis into female gender representation in the Japanese survival horror game, Fatal Frame (2001)

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

   Author : Vanja Waller; [2021]
   Keywords : Horror games; gender representation; female gender; horror cinema; female protagonist; Fatal frame; Japanese horror; survival horror; audience analysis;

   Abstract : Gender representation in the horror genre has many interesting discussions surrounding it through multiple perspectives such as psychoanalysis and culture. This article intends to expand the investigation of how female characters are portrayed in horror games. READ MORE

5. 4. The Representation of Immigrants A Critical Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech in the Presidential Campaign of 2016

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Banan Bara; [2020]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse analysis; Political Discourse; Ideological Discourse;

   Abstract : CDA is a multi-disciplinary approach to discourse which study the relationship between discourse, power and ideology. This makes the application of it on political discourse very suitable since it can be applied to analyse the specific structures of language and ideologies used by politicians to influence the recipient’s mind and hence their actions. READ MORE

6. 5. From Desumasu to Buzzwole: A categorization of Japanese-to-English translation methods in localized Pokémon names

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Don Arvidsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Japanese; English; translation; localization; video game; Pokémon; onomastics; character naming; literary onomastics; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study explored the localization of the fictional species names in the Pokémon multimedia franchise. The relations and changes between the semantic units included in 807 Pokémon names were analysed using a framework of existing translational categories of proper names within onomastics (Vermes 2001, Ainiala, Saarelma and Sjöblom 2012), semantic analysis (Nida 1975) and general translation theories (Vinay and Darbelnet 1958). READ MORE