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Press Any Button To Get Started: Approaching Japanese Culture And Society Through Video Games, Amanda Weber
Press Any Button To Get Started: Approaching Japanese Culture And Society Through Video Games, Amanda Weber
East Asian Studies Honors Papers
This project argues for inclusion of video games into the liberal arts curriculum alongside more traditional texts. Three Japanese-developed video games are analyzed in terms of their appropriateness for the Ursinus Quest curriculum while also exploring their appropriation of characters, themes, and values from Japanese mytho-history. My approach incorporates the methodology introduced by the scholar James Paul Gee who studies video games through the lens of semiotics and gaming theory. Gee defines key elements presented in video games as ‘lifeworld domains,’ which incorporate cultures, societies, and individual and group experiences. The value of video games resides in the players’ development …