How Game Designers Create Morality Systems
Channel: The Game Overanalyser
Date: 2019-09-27

Morality systems in Video Games like Undertale and Spec ops the line can explore morality and guilt using mechanics, systems and narrative, and this essay explores how game designers go about doing that. As an interactive art form, Video games seem best situated to explore the nature of morality. This video examines the potential of games as a vehicle for moral education by drawing from game studies, psychology and philosophy.

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Sources

Books
-The Ethics of computer games  Miguel sicart
-Persuasive games  Ian Bogost
-The Righteous Mind  Jonathan Haidt
-Metaphors we live by George Lakoff
-Moral Tribes,  Joshua greene
-Thinking fast and slow  Daniel Kahneman
-Critical play  Mary Flanagan 
-Significant zero  Walt Williams

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