Designing Ethical Gameplay-Sicart
Chapter in Ethics And Game Design-Schrier
The starting of COD kills you. It implies that you will get agency and action, but it subverts that by simply executing you. In that way, COD 4 is taking a critical stance towards its own genre.
What is a moral game? It’s not just making binary choices because morality is more of a system and a rationale. Thus, ethics is a series of systems and choices in a gameworld.
Fallout 3 has a no-win quest as well that forces reflection.
Games have different layers (sorta MDA), and the ethical interactions of a game are at the semantic level.
Break traditional HCI principles: Increase cognitive friction and force the player to reflect.
“An ethically successful game pitches players against their own morals”
Shadow of the Colossus takes a very hands off approach in reflection, but its there, oh its definitely there.
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