[Commlist] New Issue: Gamevironments - Peripheral Religions and Games published

Dom Ford is delighted to announce the latest issue of the diamond open 
access journal /gamevironments/, a special issue on Peripheral 
Religions, guest edited by Carolin Puckhaber (University of Münster), 
Aska Mayer (Tampere University) and Knut V. M. Wormstädt (RWTH Aachen 
University).

The special issue features four articles that look at representations of 
peripheral religions in digital games, religious practices in games that 
are in some way positioned as against or apart from the 'mainstream' 
religious practices in that world. The articles explore a number of 
games including /Crusader Kings III/, /Europa Universalis IV/, /Baldur's 
Gate 3/ and /Cyberpunk 2077/. The report is a design reflection on 
creating a game about a religion in transition.

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*Introduction*

*Peripheral Religions and Games. Introduction*

/by Carolin Puckhaber, Aska Mayer and Knut V. M. Wormstädt/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/284 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/284>

*Articles*

*Nerfing My Religion. A Cognitive Mapping of Faiths in /Crusader Kings 
III/ and /Europa Universalis IV/*

/by Christopher McMahon/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/270 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/270>

*Creating Cult Controversies. Peripheral Religions in the Video Game 
/Baldur's Gate 3/*

/by Dunja Sharbat Dar/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/273 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/273>

*"The World is a Maze of Illusions." Peripheral Religion and Enchantment 
in /Cyberpunk 2077/*

/by Leonid Moyzhes and Mikael D. Sebag/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/274 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/274>

*Virtual Magic. The Depictions of Semi-Referential Systems of Magic in 
Video Game Aesthetics and Narrative*

/by Andrej Kapcar/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/275 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/275>

*Report*

*Designing /Keep the Faith/. Creating a Storytelling Game About a 
Religion in Transition*

/by Greg Loring-Albright/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/272 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/272>

*Reviews*

*Review of Robert Houghton's /The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic 
Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism/ (2024)*

/by Markus Eldegard Mindrebø/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/277 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/277>

*Review of Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle's /Made in 
Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) About Us/ (2024)*

/by Joleen Blom/

https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/280 
<https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/article/view/280>


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