By Roderick Dale and Markus Mindrebø (University of Stavanger) In The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, the Skellige Isles draw on post-medieval research to create a viking-inspired setting that satisfies…
By Simone Fleres (English Translation at foot of page) Per quanto si tratti di un gioco fantasy il lavoro di world building fatto prima dallo scrittore della saga Andrzej Sapkowski,…
By Jéssica Iolanda Costa Bispo (Nova University Lisbon/CETAPS) The witcher Geralt of Rivia became, especially of late, a remarkable character in the Western collective imaginary, as a prominent figure in…
By Blair Apgar (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) “I know Tassing seems big to you, but the world is so much bigger than we can imagine.” – Brother Sebhat, Pentiment As…
By Simone Vitolo (University of Modena) (English Translation at foot of page) Il primo Kingdom Come: Deliverance, fu oggetto di critiche a causa della totale assenza di persone nere .…
By Johansen Quijano (Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus) Black Desert Online (BDO)’s struggles with globalities vs regionalities stem from how it draws from Western and East Asian aesthetic traditions,…
By Merle Stratmann (Carl von Ossietzky-University Oldenburg) ‘Live Action Role Playing’ (LARP) is a form of public history. Conventions can take place in the setting of historical times, such as…
By Lucas Haasis and Patrick Heike (Gamelab ‘Villa Geistreich’ in Oldenburg) Pentiment is a narrative adventure and crime game set in 16th-century Bavaria. It has attracted considerable attention from the…
By Stephen Yeager (Concordia University) Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X should be categorized generically as free-to-play ad-based mobile RPGs, descended from the frameworks for collaborative storytelling developed…
By Vinicius Marino Carvalho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Is this the way out? Modern fantasy shares a relatively consistent set of narrative and aesthetic references, roughly informed by medievalist artistic…
Roderick Dale 
Simone Fleres 
Jessica Iolanda Costa Bispo 
Blair Apgar 
Simone Vitolo 
Johansen Quijano 
Merle Stratmann 
Lucas Haasis 
Stephen Yeager 
Vinicius Marino Carvalho