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A study of live action role plays as transmediations of a global franchise universe, this work analyses two cases: College of Wizardry (world of Harry Potter) and Witcher School (world of The Witcher), using Mark Wolf’s (2012) framework of eight infrastructures: space, time, character, nature, culture, language, mythology and philosophy. The case studies lead to questions and predictions about franchise...
The article focuses on worldbuilding techniques used in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in order to create a self-contained fictional world. Firstly, an overview of the characteristics of game spaces is provided. Secondly, following a brief introduction to Andrzej Sapkowski’s fiction, the article discusses the design methods the game uses for representing topography, architecture, human and nonhuman activity,...
In this article I analyze the interface of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with regard to its transparency as well as its influence on the player’s immersion. Furthermore, I scrutinize all measures used by the interface to decrease the effect of emersion, which might appear as game information is being read by the player. I also consider the literary context in my research – I reflect on how the interface...
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