The digital brush paints a flourishing world: enacting religion and aesthetic traditions in Ōkami
The video game Ōkami encourages players to immerse themselves in a digital gamescape that incorporates Japanese aesthetics, stories, and religious philosophies. The designers have gamified Shintō holographic reasoning, Confucian virtues, and Buddhist metaphors of fighting demons of the mind to creat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Carfax Publ.
2022
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Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 419-434 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Video game
/ Gamification
/ Shintoism
/ Buddhism
/ Staging
/ Metaphor
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education BL Buddhism BN Shinto ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Japan B Video Games B Flourishing B Shintoism B Metaphor |
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| Summary: | The video game Ōkami encourages players to immerse themselves in a digital gamescape that incorporates Japanese aesthetics, stories, and religious philosophies. The designers have gamified Shintō holographic reasoning, Confucian virtues, and Buddhist metaphors of fighting demons of the mind to create a world modeled after a mythological retelling of medieval Japan. A significant portion of the player’s gameplay involves purifying pollutants from the environment, which improves the player character and the Japanesque world’s citizens. The game acts as a playable metaphor that teaches the player about Japanese religion and culture by allowing them to enact an interpretation of it interactively. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2022.2099084 |