The topic of ethical decision-making in video games is gaining increasing attention in game studies and game design research. A number of theoretical models (including…
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The MIT Moral Machine experiment is one of the largest-scale cross-cultural investigations into ethical judgement. The authors describe it as a “serious game”, although it…
This paper claims that morality is fundamentally the result of an (biological and cultural) evolutionary process to solve a set of common cooperation problems faced…
In this paper, Schrier makes the case for the use of videogames as tools for ethics education. She argues that games’ strength as vehicles for…
Macquarie University’s Visiting Research Fellowship Scheme is open again for applications. If any of my fellow games academics would like to visit Sydney for a…
So I thought I may as well start with one of my own papers. This is one of the papers I’m most pleased with on…
Welcome to Morality Play! My hope is that this blog becomes a forum where researchers investigating ethical play in games can come together, share their…