Journal | magazén
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2023
Megadungeon
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Paolo Berti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Stefania De Vincentis - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Gabriele de Seta - Universitetet i Bergen, Norge - email
This special issue outlines a new model capable of encompassing the complexity of contemporary digital ecosystems: the ‘megadungeon’. The articles included in this collection approach the megadungeon model from different angles and scales, contributing to an exploratory, speculative, and necessarily partial mapping of this media theoretical framework.
Keywords Depth • Volumetry • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Tabletop role-playing games • Metaphors • Megadungeon • Monster • Open worlds • Agency • Hieronymus Bosch • Play • Topology • Co-creativity • Digital folklore • Underground • Digital culture • Dungeons • Dungeon • Aesthetics • User Generated Content (UGC) • New media art • The Garden of Earthly Delights • Spatial practice • Digital infrastructures • Mapping • In-game worldbuilding • Digital media • Urban studies • Music • Class • Contemporary art • Ethnomusicology • Digital art • Exhibition design • Machine learning • Infrastructure • Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) • Bestiaries • Imaginary • Web 3 • Geology of media • 0 • Postdigital aura • Generative Art • Blockchain • Critical geography
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02 | Published Dec. 19, 2023 | Language en
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