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Games scholar Jose Zagal starts a new semester of Backstory, with discussions of Role-Playing Games Studies, the intricate web of influence among different game media, and identifying the ethical frameworks in Animal Crossing. If Emmanuel Kant made a videogame, what would it be like?

Jose at The University of Utah,

Jose on Twitter,

DiGRA,

Foundations of Digital Games Conference,

Role-Playing Games Studies: Transmedia Foundations (Use code FLR40 for a 20% discount!),

Videogames and the Ethics of Care (with John Murphy),

The Videogame Ethics Reader,

Ludoliteracy,

Examining 'RPG Elements': Systems of Character Progression (with Roger Altizer),

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