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Real Politics and Political Theory in Role-Playing Games

What can we learn from the political fiction of some good RPGs (and what RPGs have to learn from real politics and political theory)

12 min readMar 14, 2022

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Why Random Encounters Shouldn’t Disappear in RPGs

How random encounter system can be designed in a modern and enjoyable way in current RPGs

13 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Auteur Theory and Video Games

Sometimes a video game is like a novel, freely conceived and planned by a single author, a door to his personal and imaginary home

11 min readJan 28, 2022

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The Poetics of Narrative Design in Video Games

How to make the fictional worlds of video games more immersive and convincing

13 min readDec 9, 2021

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The Poetics of Narrative Design in Video Games

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The Rashomon Effect in Vagrant Story

How to provide unique experiences in video games with a story told by contradictory perspectives of different characters

12 min readNov 3, 2021

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The Definition of Design by Subtraction

How to make more with less in video games through minimalist and coherentist design

13 min readSep 4, 2021

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The Science of Battle Systems in Quasi-Action RPGs

Game design concepts for creating different combat systems in RPGs

12 min readAug 4, 2021

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What is the Difference Between Western and Eastern RPGs?

The history of RPGs and their ways of storytelling

14 min readJul 27, 2021

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The Evolution of Textual Immersion in Video Games

How the development of text in video games through the ’90s brought us closer to their worlds and characters

10 min readJul 1, 2021

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Do Video Games Need To Be Entertaining To Be Good?

Why some titles can be considered great and not be fun

11 min readMay 11, 2021

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Vítor M. Costa

Vítor M. Costa

Brazilian historian and philosopher. Nintendo Blast (PT), SUPERJUMP (EN) writer. Here, I write gaming essays about what video games are and what they can do.

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