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…
Morality Play Posts
I have created a Mendeley group for Morality Play researchers to share papers of interest. If you are interested in joining the group, please email…
[EDIT: The deadline for submissions has been extended until April 3]. The Morality Play workshop (first held at FDG/DiGRA 2016) will return to DiGRA 2020…
The Serious Games Research Network and the Department of Computing at Macquarie University (Sydney Australia) are offering a 3-year PhD scholarship for a student interested doing a project involving…
Date: January 16/17, 2020 Location: Collegium Helveticum (Schmelzbergstrasse 25, 8006 Zürich), Zurich University of the Arts (Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich) Keynote Speaker: Celia Hodent (Game…
A conversation between Jane Messer, Paul Formosa and I about the narrative design for The Great Fire from the Digital Writer’s Festival: Play the game…
Quandary is an online and mobile game developed by the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. Targetted at children aged eight…
Jane Messer, Paul Formosa and I will be presenting The Great Fire, our project investigating moral descision-making in games, at the 2019 Digital Writers’ Festival.…
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…