A more significant worry is that Suitsian play is necessarily immature and unworthy of serious attention. Suitsian games always involve practical struggles. We become absorbed in the instrumental activity of overcoming obstacles and achievi…8 GAMES
forces players to make stereotypically gendered career choices for their female character in order to cause them to reflect on gender biases in the workplace (Sharp 2015, 77–97). Flanagan herself praises Gonzolo Frasca’s game Septe…8 GAMES
forces players to make stereotypically gendered career choices for their female character in order to cause them to reflect on gender biases in the workplace (Sharp 2015, 77–97). Flanagan herself praises Gonzolo Frasca’s game Septe…
Mary Flanagan
artist · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Mary Flanagan is a game designer and theorist known for creating games that embed social critique and ethical reflection into their mechanics, particularly around gender and power structures. She appears in the readings as a practitioner and advocate of "critical play"—games designed to make players confront systemic biases and injustices rather than escape into abstraction—positioning game design as a tool for political and social commentary that rivals other artistic media. The course uses her work to argue that games are not merely instrumental puzzles or entertainment but can function as sites where players actively experience and interrogate the structures they inhabit.
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