Samuel Ulbricht, "Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Playing a Game of Make Believe
I think that all players know perfectly well that they are, for example, not really murdering a person, but only in game. But at the same time, er, these players mean ly and nomatively assess their actions as if it would be a real action. I want to give you an example. Most of the listeners have heard about america's army. It's a tactical shooter created by the us. Army. And this game was dee with h goin to recruit new soldiers for the army. Players are supposed to understand their play as practising military operations,. As gaining first military experiences, or something like that. In other words, i think they open their actionso actions
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