Beyond the screen : exploring the player’s role and its impact on emotional experiences in video games

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dc.contributor.authorPinto, Filipe
dc.contributor.institutionHEI-LAB - Human Environment Interaction Lab
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-07T10:45:01Z
dc.date.available2025-04-07T10:45:01Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-01
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the idea of the player as a co-creator of their own experience in video games, focusing on how we can define their role within the game’s architecture and how they shape their emotional experiences. By agreeing to an implicit ‘contract’ as they play a video game, players not only accept to adhere to the rules of the game world but allow themselves to become engaged in the game’s narratives, landscapes, characters, and other elements, opening themselves to deep emotional involvement and becoming integral parts of the narrative structure. Drawing on examples from games like Mass Effect, God of War, Doki Doki Literature Club!, and The Last of Us, among others, the article examines how players form emotional connections through romantic relationships, familial bonds, and friendships. Using concepts inherent to video games, such as agency and immersion, alongside others like involvement and incorporation, as well as those applicable to all fictional works, like suspension of disbelief and rational distance, the article ties these concepts together to better understand the player’s role and its impact on their experience. It highlights how that role influences these emotional experiences, allowing them to extend beyond the game world and leave lasting personal impacts on players.en
dc.identifier.citationPinto, F 2024, 'Beyond the screen : exploring the player’s role and its impact on emotional experiences in video games', International Journal of Games and Social Impact, vol. 2, no. 2, 2, pp. 28-56. https://doi.org/10.60543/ijgsi.v2.n2.02
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.60543/ijgsi.v2.n2.02
dc.identifier.issn2975-8386
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10437/15254
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherLusofona University
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Games and Social Impact
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.subjectAUDIOVISUAL
dc.subjectVIDEOGAMES
dc.subjectEMOTIONS
dc.subjectUSER EXPERIENCE
dc.subjectNARRATIVE
dc.subjectGAMEPLAY
dc.subjectAUDIOVISUAL
dc.subjectVIDEOJOGOS
dc.subjectEMOÇÕES
dc.subjectEXPERIÊNCIA DO UTILIZADOR
dc.subjectNARRATIVA
dc.subjectJOGABILIDADE
dc.titleBeyond the screen : exploring the player’s role and its impact on emotional experiences in video gamesen
dc.typearticle

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International Journal of Games and Social Impact, Vol. 2, Nº. 2 (2024)