Near-Death Experience in Video Games or How Looking Death in the Eyes Can Be a Sales Concept: The Case of Blasphemous from an Anthropological, Metaphysical, and Promotional Standpoint

被引:1
作者
Velasco, Josefa Ros [1 ]
Romera, Cesar San Nicolas [2 ]
Nicolas Ojeda, Miguel Angel [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Murcia, Murcia, Spain
关键词
Blasphemous; death; Hans Blumenberg; transmedia; video games; EVERYDAY SADISM; VIOLENCE; WORLDS;
D O I
10.5209/esim.84833
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Death is common in video games and one of the key elements to achieve bestseller status. From an anthropological perspective, near-death experience in video games enables the player to encounter familiarity with this uncharted phenomenon through interaction-which is necessary to understand and include it naturally in life from a metaphysical point of view-given the recreational -communicative nature of video games and their capacity for creating culture and horizons of meaning- not just the video game as a device, but also the full transmedia promotional narrative in which players participate first-hand. In this article, we analyze the anthropological and metaphysical components of the representation of death in video games following the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg's theory of the absolutism of reality, as well as the case of Blasphemous and its promotional storytelling to determine how death appears as a sales concept in the publicity due to its place in the players' common symbolic consciousness.
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页数:21
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