Digital games: Between good and evil

Popular culture is often said to reduce complex questions of morality to simple formula of good versus evil. 

This talk uses many examples to show, that videogames are often surprisingly profound and complex, and that they have found their own language for dealing with the topic.

The main strategies of the games in question involve wicked problems, narratives situated in moral grey zones and avatars in the tradition of anti-heroes. Using these and other devices, games undermine clear, unambiguous notions of good and evil. 

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