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WhitepaperUniversity of British Columbia22 Oct 2026

"You Were Never Meant to Win": A Taxonomy of Scripted Loss in Digital Games

Game Design
Game Studies
Game Culture
Narrative Adventure
Elden Ring
Final Fantasy VII

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"You Were Never Meant to Win": A Taxonomy of Scripted Loss in Zhehao Sun Yuanyuan Xu Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS) The University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [email protected] [email protected] Chi Zhen Megan Smith Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies...

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Elden RingGame · FromSoftware · 2022 · 304 documents
Final Fantasy VIIGame · Square Product Development Division 1 · 1997 · 95 documents
BioShockGame · 2K Boston · 2007 · 95 documents
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