“Who should I call if no one shows up to pick up the dead? #movingout”- On gameness, materiality, and meaning in Cities: Skylines

Olli Tapio Leino

“Who should I call if no one shows up to pick up the dead? #movingout”- On gameness, materiality, and meaning in Cities: Skylines

Olli Tapio Leino

School of Creative Media

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

Abstract

This paper focuses on gameness, meaning, and materiality of single-player computer games. It asks: what are the things we call single-player computer games and how can we interpret them? Making use of Heidegger’s duality of ontic and ontological dimensions, and, looking at Cities: Skylines (2015) as an example, this paper reconciles single-player computer games’ ‘gameness’ and material-technological form in order to describe the conditions underlying their nterpretation.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Oct 2015
Event	The 9^th International Philosophy of Computer Games Conference - Berlin, Germany Duration: 14 Oct 2015 → 17 Oct 2015 http://2015.gamephilosophy.org/

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Conference	The 9^th International Philosophy of Computer Games Conference
Place	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	14/10/15 → 17/10/15
Internet address	http://2015.gamephilosophy.org/

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Research Keywords

games
meaning
hermeneutics
ludology
existentialism

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GRF: Existential Hermeneutics for Playable Media: Understanding the Relationship between Freedom, Responsibility and Interpretation in Solitary Computer Game Play
LEINO, O. T. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
1/09/14 → 29/08/18
Project: Research

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2015. Paper presented at The 9^th International Philosophy of Computer Games Conference, Berlin, Germany.

Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review

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“Who should I call if no one shows up to pick up the dead? #movingout”- On gameness, materiality, and meaning in Cities: Skylines

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