Playing at Colonization

1 April 2006

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Communication Inquiry

Vol. 30 (2), 142-162
https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859905285320

Abstract

This article coins the term gamescape to offer a way of thinking about the implications of the way in which landscape in video games is actively constructed within a particular ideological framework. The author examines the spatial practices used to construct the gamescape in Tropico and their attendant dangers. The author concludes with a discussion of the theming of this gamescape, and the way in which the trope of tropicalization is used to stabilize Tropico as an “Othered” space.

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