In DiGRA India’s first post in an Indian language, Souvik Mukherjee writes in Bengali about the role of videogames in culture with an emphasis on narrative multiplicity, involvement, and the procedural rhetoric of the game that serve to influence the shaping of the player’s opinions. Mukherjee highlights the importance for both the Humanities and theContinue reading “লেখাপড়া আর খেলাপড়া”
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“Call Me Kakolookiyam”: Oedipal Fantasy in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Hiranya Mukherjee The narrative of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Ubisoft Montreal, 2003) can beread as an allegory of the Freudian Oedipal fantasy and the subsequent failure of the infant subject in realizing it. In the beginning of the game, the Prince remarks that: Many men that day sought to win honor andContinue reading ““Call Me Kakolookiyam”: Oedipal Fantasy in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”
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