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Video Game Navigation: A Classification System for Navigational Acts
Video Game Navigation: A Classification System for Navigational Acts

Author(s): Michael S. Debus
Subject(s): Social psychology and group interaction
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: videogame space; videogame time; game ontology; navigation; typology

Summary/Abstract: Navigation in video games has been a vastly neglected topic in game studies. In this paper a classification system for navigational acts has been developed through theoretical work as well as the analysis of multiple games. The result is an exclusive five-step classification system. Moreover, the development showed that navigational acts are highly dependent on the environment in which they occur. The system is a first step towards a deeper understanding of how the player navigates the gameworld, instead of what she navigates.

  • Issue Year: 3/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 29-46
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English