Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02VIDEOJ
Rubén García Moreno
Open-world videogames have become popular in the last years, establishing themselves as a modern way of designing videogame experiences as they offer new narrative techniques, alternative to other traditional linear ones. Its ludic proposal is based on wide passable spaces, inhabited by characters controlled by artificial intelligence, and an intensive use of environmental narration that allows its creators to explore new narrative forms. The present work aims at proposing a new model of analysis for the scientific study of open-world videogames, considering them as ludonarrative constructions. This work is grounded on scientific theories of the first academic researchers that have approached these types of videogames, but it is also based on the vision from the creators who have dedicated part of their career to designing them. Lastly, this work is completed with an implementation of the analysis model on Death Stranding, an open-world videogame, and a discussion of the results.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02BRANDP
Sara Piazzolla, I. García Medina, Marián Navarro-Beltrán
Brand placement is used as an alternative advertising strategy. This case study aimed at investigating its efficacy in music videos in the UK, Spain and Italy through surveys. The first research question aimed at determining the degree of association between nationality and brand familiarity. Results have reported a directional association for half the brands advertised. The second research question aimed at determining the correlation between brand familiarity and brand recall. This study demonstrated that the greater the familiarity of the brand, the more likely it is to be recalled after watching a music video. The third research question aimed at determining whether participants were more aware of brands that they had not previously heard of after watching the music videos. Results showed similar responses of participants either agreeing or disagreeing with the statement and similar results were obtained for the Italian and British samples. It could be concluded that brand placement in music videos is especially effective in certain cultures and situations.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02SERIOU
Laura Manzano-Zambruno, Guillermo Paredes-Otero
This research approaches the video games industry in search of indicators that make it an ally to help combat gender violence. The object of study is the trilogy made up of The Kite, Little Kite and Repentant (Anate Studio, 2012-2018); three titles that demonstrate how the video game is not only a purely recreational format, but also offers experiences with other purposes, such as raising awareness of social problems. We start from the hypothesis that, although gender violence appears as a central theme in these games, it does it in a way that perpetuates stereotypes; and we propose as the main objective to analyze the way in which gender violence is represented, using a playful-narrative analysis, and as a secondary objective to reflect on the potential of video games to conceptualize gender violence as a social problem and make known about its importance. The results show that, although this trilogy is a good starting point to contribute to social change, the vision it offers of gender violence is reduced to the domestic sphere and is associated with alcoholism and marginalization.
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The explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a major transformation in media consumption and the use of social networks. New habits and extensive exposure to connected devices coupled with unmanageable amounts of information warn of a worrying reality, especially among the younger population. The aim of this research is to discover the degree of trustworthiness of Generation Z towards the media, their media consumption preferences and the association they make between media consumption and fake news. Using a descriptive and exploratory quantitative methodology, a study is presented with a sample of 225 young people belonging to this population niche. The study addresses three dimensions: media consumption, social networks and perception of fake news. The results show that generation Z is an intensive consumer of the media they trust the least and perceive traditional media as the most trustworthy. The findings indicate that social networks are the main source of information consumption for this generation, among other content, despite also being the least trustworthy and the most likely to distribute fake news according to their perceptions. There is a lack of media literacy from a critical rather than a formative perspective.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02GAMEST
S. Gómez-García, Teresa de la Hera, Alfonso Cuadrado-Alvarado
After being forged over the last decades, the discipline of Game Studies has completed its theoretical and methodological foundations and has developed an institutional interest on the part of academics from all over the world. This thematic issue of the journal index.comunicación presents a compilation of studies related to the discipline of Game Studies, carried out in Spain and focused on the exploration of the future of a hetero-heterogeneous and transversal discipline. Specifically, the focus is on features of the narrative characteristics of games, their persuasive potential and their social influence. The main objective of this special issue is to consolidate a point of reflection on the present and future research on Game Studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02PERCEP
Renzo Rodríguez-Ramírez, F. Arbaiza, E. Yalán
In-game advertising or IGA is a type of product placement within a video game in a textual, auditory, visual and interactive way, used for decades and that, with the digital transformation and changes in consumption, has gained much prominence. Its use is allowing playful media platforms, which previously had no place in media convergence, to now be used for advertising purposes. This formula is allowing brands to effectively impact countless times on a large set of players through different streaming services. This high scope is complemented by a consistent construction of values, experiences, lifestyles and identities through the interaction with the product through the video game narrative. An example of this is the growing popularity of e-sports in Peruvian universities, which through FIFA20 tournaments, has facilitated a high level of scope of the brands present in the video game among young university students. This research has sought to discover how the in-game advertising of the Adidas brand in FIFA20 —one of the most popular games in Peru according to the latest GFK research— is perceived by university gamers.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02OPORTU
Rubén Rivas-de-Roca
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) for journalistic purposes is increasingly present in worldwide media. Despite its key role in the construction of communities, the local press enjoys a lower level of use of AI due to its limited economic capacity. It is in this context that this research examines the use of robotization in the local media of the Mittmedia consortium in Sweden, which in the period 2017-2020 have exponentially increased their number of subscribers through articles produced by a bot (The homeowners bot). The structure and content of the information published by this United Robot tool is analyzed, for which 50 news items published in three periods of time (2017, 2018 and 2019) are collected. As a result, it is observed that the bot produces short texts with interactivity elements that contextualize their content. Automation focuses on news from the real estate sector, providing public service information by subscription. This practice means a chance for robotization to be used to develop texts that generate engagement in local areas, since without AI many of these issues would be left uncovered.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02UNMODE
Carlos Moreno Azqueta
In this paper we present a large-scale comparative analysis model for videogames in which the player manages the development of a political community, which we will call «government simulators». The model, built upon political-science literature and other analytical models for videogames, uses a set of operationalized variables to synthesize the components of the political system represented in games, as well as the structure of objectives and other elements that guide the player’s action, to finally compare them with a set of independent variables. The model will be tested by applying it to three famous government simulators that have received notable academic attention (Civilization V, Tropico IV and Frostpunk), to finally discuss its advantages and limitations.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02DERADI
José Ignacio Wert Moreno, José María Legorburu Hortelano
The aim of this article is to retrace the history of Radio 80, a general radio station in its origins, but which, throughout its almost four decades of existence, underwent different and very notable transformations, becoming a very popular music radio station, first as Radio 80 Serie Oro, and later as M80, until it gave way to LOS40 Classic. Although it is impossible to understand the last fifty years of Spanish radio without referencing this station, it has hardly been studied. With this aim, qualitative research has been carried out, collecting valuable information from primary sources through in-depth interviews with the station's top management at key moments in its history. As a result, it has been possible to accurately trace its historical trajectory, to understand the reasons for its constant metamorphosis and to analyse how each transmutation has influenced its audience results.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.33732/IXC/11/02CONCAP
Alberto Porta-Pérez
The character of Captain Spirit reveals the power of imagination in the ludonarrative layer, as he does not limit himself to being another avatar managed by the player, nor an alter ego of his creator, little Chris. At a narrative level, Captain Spirit is part of the psychology of our main character, he tells us about who he was, who he is, what his fears and dreams are. He is also the perfect vehicle that leads us to empathy through the essential phases of the Aristotelian tragedy. At a ludic level, Captain Spirit manifests himself through significant mechanics, showing his differences with the person who created him.In this text we will review some of the aspects that make up the ludonarrative engine of video games that include design of choices or ramification, applying them to the case study of The Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit(Dontnod Entertainment, 2018), a spin-off created by the franchise Life is Strange(Dontnod Entertainment, 2015-) that serves as a bridge the first two installments and whose strategy lies in limiting the agency frame of the player and building an emotional bond with the character through his imagination.
Captain Spirit这一角色在游戏叙述层面中展现了想象力的力量，因为他并没有将自己局限于玩家所管理的另一个角色，也不是创造者Chris的另一个自我。在叙述层面上，精神船长是我们主角心理的一部分，他告诉我们他是谁，他是谁，他的恐惧和梦想是什么。他也是一个完美的载体，引导我们通过亚里士多德悲剧的基本阶段产生共鸣。在一个有趣的层面上，Captain Spirit通过重要的机制表现自己，展示了他与创造他的人的不同之处。在本文中，我们将回顾构成电子游戏的游戏叙事引擎的一些方面，包括选择设计或分支，并将其应用于《the Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit》(Dontnod Entertainment, 2018)的案例研究，这是由特许经营《奇异人生》(Life is Strange, Dontnod Entertainment, 2018)创造的衍生游戏。作为前两部作品的桥梁，其策略在于限制玩家的代理框架，并通过他的想象力与角色建立情感联系。
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