Скачать или смотреть FROG 2024 | Krzysztof Chmielewski | Convincing the convinced

Convincing the convinced – games with a message of ecology and identity. Space Gliders case study.
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Krzysztof Chmielewski

Abstract
Either cross-generation identity and responsibility or ecological safety become more and more visible topics that appear in games (Larreina-Morales, Gunella, 2023). The author, an executive producer of a medium-budget, independent videogame Space Gliders (2021), analyses the failure of a message included in the narrative. Its reception was investigated on the basis of a quantitative study among Polish youth – both engaged in environmental protection and distancing from this fondness.
Using a survey conducted on a sample of approximately 200 students of fields that forge leaders in diplomacy and international security who had played the game, as well as in-depth interviews with six young Polish gaming influencers, author tries to validate the hypothesis about an enhancement of pro-ecological and protecting the local identities attitudes among the young adults who already present such inclinations with a simultaneous internalization of the game’s message by the recipients who do not identify themselves this way. The author looks up to leading edu-games for the same target audience and runs a comparative analysis of selected solutions based on data provided by the users.The following step was to learn the lesson regarding good practices that would increase the chances of building a deep, positive reception of an educational background in games designed for Central European youth.
To summarize this deliberation and help the future entrepreneurs to establish a greater degree of accuracy on this matter, the author provides a post-mortem analysis of the game narrative from the producer’s perspective.

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This talk was part of the conference "FROG - Future and Reality of Gaming" 2024 | "Gaming the Apocalypse" | 11 - 13 October 2024 | www.frogvienna.at

FROG 2024 is organised by the Center for Applied Game Studies (University for Continuing Education Krems) and funded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (Sektion VI – Families and Youth).