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65 – Ito – Engineering Play

Game Studies Study Buddies

CHAPTER

Exploring Construction Software and Gender Dynamics in Gaming

This chapter delves into the evolution of construction software tools like SimCity 2000, highlighting their impact on user creativity and productivity. It examines gender dynamics within gaming, focusing on how structured play methods can lead to exclusion and missed opportunities for analysis in gaming cultures. The episode concludes with insights on authoring tools as anti-authoritarian tools and their potential systemic effects on cultural genres and institutional structures.

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