In this article, Australian Defence Chaplain John Dansie discusses an experiment using the classic wargame Diplomacy as a vehicle to officers in moral character. His…
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This paper reviews three games from 2016 – Firewatch, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Darkest Dungeon – and looks at how each of them addresses…
When we talk about designing ethically challenging games, the question obviously arises of why such games exist at all. We can talk about the “serious”…
I have opined before about the imbalance between theoretical models and empirical data in the area of ethical gameplay. The past decade has produced a…
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…
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…
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…