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Video Game SpacesImage, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds$
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Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds

Michael Nitsche

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780262141017

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262141017.001.0001

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Virtual Places

Virtual Places

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(p.191) 12 Virtual Places
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Video Game Spaces
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Michael Nitsche

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The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262141017.003.0111

This chapter discusses the creation of virtual places. Engagement by the player, through comprehension and interaction, can transform digital spaces into places. A genius loci is often defined by subjective experience of the location. To establish some measure, three indicators for placeness are suggested: identity, self-motivated and self-organized action, and traces of memory. All three are significant issues in the creation of placeness in the “real” world and provide an entry point into the discussion of the virtual place.

Keywords:   placeness, virtual spaces, virtual place, identity, self-organized action, memory

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