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Gamer-Tourist. Video Game Guides and Shaping of User Experience

Author(s): Marcin M. Chojnacki
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Tourism, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: user experience; video games; tourism; guides; paratexts;

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issue of the gamer-tourist. The author discusses it from the perspective of a specific reception attitude, consisting in transferring behaviours and expectations typical of virtual tourism to gameplay. The article also takes a closer look at the issue of guides targeted at gamers, specific paratexts that can shape the user experience by formatting the vision of gameplay.

  • Issue Year: 33/2023
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 103-114
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish