Multiplicity, relationality, and petal avatars: Thatgamecompany’s Flower as an identity model

Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco

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Multiplicity, relationality, and petal avatars: Thatgamecompany’s Flower as an identity model

dc.contributor.author	Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco
dc.contributor.department	Filología Inglesa
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-16T06:59:57Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-16T06:59:57Z
dc.date.issued	2022-11-17
dc.description	© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2022.2148630
dc.description.abstract	This article explores non-human looking avatars as models for alternative conceptions of identity. Thatgamecompany’s Flower is used here as the specific example of a more general model for Game and Cultural Studies scholars to think about the representation and reproduction of relationality and identity through avatars that are not designed to resemble human or animal-like beings. The avatar is discussed here in relation to its visual and aural configuration, the actions it affords, and the way controls are designed around it. Flower breaks with many of the standards and expectations that can be found in most games and, in doing so, it puts forward a notion of identity as an entanglement of humans, nonhuman beings, and objects. Game and Cultural Studies scholars interested in finding a broader, more diverse way of discussing identity representations will find here a useful resource
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dc.format.extent	14	es
dc.identifier.citation	Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 37, N. 1, 2023, pp. 61-73
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2022.2148630
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 1030-4312
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1469-3666
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/140844
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
dc.relation	Proyecto del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades [PGC2018- 095393-BI00].	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2022.2148630#
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	Identity	es
dc.subject	Game Studies	es
dc.subject	Avatars	es
dc.subject	Multiplicity	es
dc.subject	Relationality	es
dc.subject	Indie	es
dc.subject	Flower
dc.title	Multiplicity, relationality, and petal avatars: Thatgamecompany’s Flower as an identity model	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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