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Checking my RSS reader yesterday evening, I found a very brief post from Jesper Juul’s blog that drew my attention because of its title : “Gamer facing an Ethical Choice?“. He was talking in a single sentence about the fact that a game could help people consider ethical dilemmas, if it is played in a serious manner/state of mind, instead of looking for an optimizing approach, such as high scoring.

It is too bad the author didn’t develop more about this topic. Instead of that he has put a funny video on his blog I have embed here in order to start with a funny point before getting more serious (it’s about ethical choice but also a parody of a scene in the movie The Box):

Jose P. Zagal, a professor at Depaul University who mainly explores the challenges of using games as the subject of learning, add a link to one of his last paper called “Ethically Notable Videogames: Moral Dilemmas and Gameplay“. I think this paper is quite interesting on many aspects. It drew my attention particularly because of the choice of Manhunt as a case of study. Manhunt is a third-person stealth action game with a lot of violent graphics (if you don’t know it yet, it could be interesting for you to have a quick look at the wikipedia article). Read the rest of this entry »