Agency mechanics: gameplay design in survival horror video games

dc.contributor.author	Habel, C.
dc.contributor.author	Kooyman, B.
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.description.abstract	This article proposes the notion of ‘agency mechanics’ as an innovative design element of video games. It begins by exploring the well-documented interactive elements of horror cinema, and goes on to explore how strategies such as the sadistic/masochistic gaze and narrative perspective have been further developed in video games. It then explores work to date on the manipulation of interactivity in video games before closely analysing how agency and control are managed in the survival horror franchise Dead Space. It concludes with reflections on further research in the nexus between film and games, and further possibilities for game design through the explicit management of agency mechanics.
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	Chad Habel and Ben Kooyman
dc.identifier.citation	Digital Creativity, 2014; 25(1):1-14
dc.identifier.doi	10.1080/14626268.2013.776971
dc.identifier.issn	1462-6268
dc.identifier.issn	1744-3806
dc.identifier.orcid	Habel, C. [0000-0001-5468-3343]
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2440/84778
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Routledge
dc.rights	© 2013 Taylor & Francis
dc.source.uri	https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2013.776971
dc.subject	video games; cinema; horror; agency; Dead Space
dc.title	Agency mechanics: gameplay design in survival horror video games
dc.type	Journal article
pubs.publication-status	Published

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