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The Moral Complexity of Video Games
The Christian Century (2012)
  • Scott R. Paeth, DePaul University
Abstract

Over the past two decades, video games have reached a level of technological sophistication that enables them to immerse players in complex stories and relationships. The games require players to draw not only on their hand-eye coordination skills and puzzle-solving prowess but also on their moral imagination as they navigate complex relationships and their consequences. Today's video games are light years away from Pong and Asteroids, and they have the potential not only to offer richly textured narratives and fantastically realistic-seeming worlds but to aid in forming us as moral beings, for better and for worse.

Publication Date
March 21, 2012
Citation Information
Scott R. Paeth. "The Moral Complexity of Video Games" The Christian Century (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/scott_paeth/26/