Journal |
magazén
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2023
Megadungeon
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Paolo Berti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Stefania De Vincentis - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Gabriele de Seta - Universitetet i Bergen, Norge - email
This special issue outlines a new model capable of encompassing the complexity of contemporary digital ecosystems: the ‘megadungeon’. The articles included in this collection approach the megadungeon model from different angles and scales, contributing to an exploratory, speculative, and necessarily partial mapping of this media theoretical framework.
Keywords Geology of media • Critical geography • Depth • In-game worldbuilding • Mapping • Digital art • The Garden of Earthly Delights • Spatial practice • Underground • Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) • Digital media • Monster • Exhibition design • Agency • Metaphors • Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Volumetry • Contemporary art • 0 • Music • Open worlds • Digital infrastructures • Postdigital aura • Dungeon • Tabletop role-playing games • Blockchain • Urban studies • Class • Machine learning • Web 3 • Topology • User Generated Content (UGC) • Generative Art • Bestiaries • Ethnomusicology • Hieronymus Bosch • Infrastructure • Co-creativity • Imaginary • Dungeons • Megadungeon • Aesthetics • New media art • Digital folklore • Digital culture • Play
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02 | Published Dec. 19, 2023 | Language en
Copyright © Paolo Berti, Stefania De Vincentis, Gabriele de Seta. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
- A Brief Editorial Note on Relations and Megadungeons in the Digital and Public Humanities
- Dec. 19, 2023
- Into the Megadungeon: An Introduction
- Dec. 19, 2023
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A Preliminary Geography of the (Mega)Dungeon
Spatial Practice and Tabletop Role-Playing Games - Dec. 19, 2023
- Megadungeon: A Model for Media Complexity
- Dec. 19, 2023
- Digital Depth: A Volumetric Speculation
- Dec. 19, 2023
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Year of the Goblin
Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures - Dec. 19, 2023
- Contemporary Adventures with The Garden of Earthly Delights: Open Worlds and Hieronymus Bosch
- Dec. 19, 2023
- The AI Work of Art in the Age of its Co-Creation
- Dec. 19, 2023
