Ethics and Chill
Ethics and Chill
Ethical Society of St. Louis
Simulating Morality in Video Games
36 minutes Posted Mar 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm.
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In the beginning, games simulated simple things: a bat and ball, driving a car. More recently, however, games have started exploring morality, using different ways to give players choices between right and wrong. How do video games simulate morality, and do they effectively convey how it feels to make difficult moral decisions? James explores, using examples from Fable, Mass Effect, the Telltale games, and Planescape: Torment.