#02 City Gameplay: The Influence of Video Games on Our Urban Experience

May 28, 2018 01:02:00
#02 City Gameplay: The Influence of Video Games on Our Urban Experience
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#02 City Gameplay: The Influence of Video Games on Our Urban Experience

May 28 2018 | 01:02:00

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Show Notes

Video games have changed the way we interact with space. From their very inception, these increasingly complex virtual worlds have been forcing new perspectives and new ways of interacting with the world beyond. Once they were able to represent cities, their role in shaping our everyday urban experience became even more acute, thrusting players into environments that they would otherwise have never come close to and exposing them to representations of urban life which will have had countless effects on the way players experienced cities in real life.

But while it’s long been accepted that film, music and other established forms of culture have been instrumental in crafting people’s perception of city life, the role of video games has hitherto been rather neglected. This, despite the fact that the industry is in many countries bigger than film and music combined. If we do not accept the wide-ranging and increasingly significant role that video games have in shaping the way people interact with city space, then we leave it open to conservative or reactionary portrayals of city life and space more generally.

Oli Mould is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, he blogs at Tacity
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell is a game designer and co-founder of Games for the Many
Darran Anderson is a writer and author of Imaginary Cities and the forthcoming Tidewrack
Hannah Nicklin is a writer, narrative designer and game designer with a PhD in games influenced theatre and theatre influenced games

This episode is directed by Charlie Clemoes/the Failed Architecture team.

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