Playing with Reality: Agency in Documentary and News Games Celia Pearce Northeastern University.

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Playing with Reality: Agency in Documentary and News Games Celia Pearce Northeastern University

What the hell is a “documentary game?

Documentary: “ Factual, realistic; applied esp. to a film or literary work, etc., based on real events or circumstances, and intended primarily for instruction or record purposes. Oxford English Dictionary

Procedural Participatory Encyclopedic Spatial Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997) Immersion Agency Transformation Characteristics of Digital Media

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