In this blog, we spend a lot of time investigating how to design meaningful ethical choices in games without necessarily asking the question of why.…
Morality Play Posts
Moments of reflection are an important part of ethical play. These times at which players stop and consider what the right thing is to do…
Morality meters (or karma meters) have long been debated as a way of instrumentalising ethics in videos games. In the past, we have argued that…
It is common in game design education to cite Sid Meier’s definition that a game is “a series of interesting decisions” and explain that one…
The video of our talk from GCAP 2020 is now available on YouTube:
I will be presenting at the SimCafe on Feb 19, on the topic of “Four Lenses for Designing Morally Engaging Simulations“. Register: http://.ly/alpH50CB3hN Videos available:…
I came across this paper in an engineering conference, outside the normal stream of serious game design discussion. It discusses the development of a computer…
This paper presents a mixed-methods study in two parts, qualitative and quantitative, that investigates ‘meaningful’ choices in narrative-rich games, and asks three questions: What specific…
In this paper, we present our plans for a project currently underway, in which we design a videogame to train IT students in the moral…
This paper describes the design of the game Judgment Call from the Ethics & Society team at Microsoft. Interested in promoting awareness of ethical issues…