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LA126206
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Gaming and Grieving:
[Article]
Digital Games as Means of Confronting and Coping with Death
Beverley Foulks McGuire
Leiden
Brill
This paper explores structural similarities between playing a digital game and experiencing grief. The digital game Mandagon evokes a sense of loss through its game environment of grey mountainous landscapes, broken wooden scaffolds, and Tibetan temples and prayer flags in states of disrepair. It elicits feelings of disorientation and dependency as players repeatedly fall from scaffolds but ascend by using lifts or finding air bubble streams underwater. It encompasses terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings as players move through air, land, and water, as they neither inhabit nor encounter a human body, and they cross various cosmic thresholds through the course of the game. For players struggling with grief, it validates and normalizes feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and vulnerability in the wake of death and loss.
2020
326-346
Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
9/3
2165-9214
death
digital games
grief
Religion & Society
Religious Studies
Social Sciences
Sociology of Religion
Tibetan Buddhism
videogames
vulnerability
Beverley Foulks McGuire
10.1163/21659214-BJA10014
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