Publication:
Near-death experience in video games or how looking death in the eyes can be a sales concept: The Case of Blasphemous from an anthropological, metaphysical, and promotional standpoint

Thumbnail Image
Files
Near death experience.pdf(422.98 KB)
Date
2022-12-13
relationships.isAuthorOfPublication
relationships.isSecondaryAuthorOf
relationships.isDirectorOf
Authors
Ros Velasco, Josefa ; San Nicolás Romera, César ; Nicolás Ojeda, Miguel Ángel
item.page.secondaryauthor
item.page.director
Publisher
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
publication.page.editor
publication.page.department
Comunicación
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5209/esim.84833
item.page.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Description
© 2022 Universidad Complutense de Madrid. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Escritura e Imagen. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.5209/esim.84833
Abstract
Death is common in video games and one of the key elements to achieve bestseller status. From an anthropological perspective, near-death experience in video games enables the player to encounter familiarity with this uncharted phenomenon through interaction–which is necessary to understand and include it naturally in life from a metaphysical point of view–given the recreational-communicative nature of video games and their capacity for creating culture and horizons of meaning–not just the video game as a device, but also the full transmedia promotional narrative in which players participate first-hand. In this article, we analyze the anthropological and metaphysical components of the representation of death in video games following the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg’s theory of the absolutism of reality, as well as the case of Blasphemous and its promotional storytelling to determine how death appears as a sales concept in the publicity due to its place in the players’ common symbolic consciousness.
La muerte es habitual en los videojuegos y uno de los elementos clave para alcanzar el estatus de superventas. Desde una perspectiva antropológica, la experiencia cercana a la muerte en los videojuegos permite al jugador familiarizarse con este fenómeno inexplorado a través de la interacción, necesaria para comprenderlo e incluirlo naturalmente en la vida desde un punto de vista metafísico, dada la naturaleza lúdico-comunicativa de los videojuegos y su capacidad de crear cultura y horizontes de significado, no ya solo el videojuego como dispositivo, sino toda la narrativa promocional transmediaen la que los jugadores participan de primera mano. En este artículo analizamos los componentes antropológicos y metafísicos de la representación de la muerte en los videojuegos siguiendo la teoría del absolutismo de la realidad del filósofo alemán Hans Blumenberg, así como el caso de Blasphemousy su narrativa promocional para determinar cómo la muerte aparece como un concepto de venta en la publicidad por su lugar en la conciencia simbólica común de los jugadores.
publication.page.subject
Blasphemous , Death , Hans Blumenberg , Transmedia , Video games , Muerte , Videojuegos
Citation
Escritura e Imagen, 2022, Vol. 18, pp. 45-55
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/147981
item.page.embargo
Collections
Artículos
Ir a Estadísticas