Abstract
Playful (Counter)Publics: Game Mods as Rhetorical Forms of Active and Subversive Player Participation
Highlights
Pokémon Korosu In-Game ScreenshotsThough most digital humanities scholars readily agree that game developers need to offer more progressive functions and options to enhance player agency, such recommendations for further research or action often ignore how players are already able to enact their agency in spaces beyond the game itself
Online gaming forums serve as hotbeds of active player participation andpublic discourse.[1]
Mods, which are collaboratively developed in such online forums by players for players, are digital compositions that can alter the code of a game in various ways, thereby opening up more possibility spaces for players without having to wait for developer intervention
Summary
Pokémon Korosu In-Game ScreenshotsThough most digital humanities scholars readily agree that game developers need to offer more progressive functions and options to enhance player agency, such recommendations for further research or action often ignore how players are already able to enact their agency in spaces beyond the game itself.
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