From Walking Simulator to Ambience Action Game

When Dear Esther (The Chinese Room, 2012) was released in 2012 as a standalone game, the new “walking simulator” genre name came into popular use. The term implies a banalization of game design while also missing the core characteristics of the games subsumed under it and, therefore, lacks epistemo...

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Main Authors: Felix Zimmermann, Christian Huberts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Glasgow 2019-08-01
Series:Press Start
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Online Access:https://press-start.gla.ac.uk/index.php/press-start/article/view/126