Endling: Extinction is Forever
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Documents about Endling: Extinction is Forever
Whitepaper4 pages
On Inhabiting Nonhuman Bodies: Review of Research Perspectives
This review by Iwona Marinov organizes and formalizes research perspectives on animal games, digital works that position players within the embodied perspective of a nonhuman animal avatar, and situates them within the broader field of ecogame scholarship.
- The review argues that a substantial body of work on animal games already exists across animal studies, environmental humanities, and game studies, but lacks an organized discourse in which its contributors recognize themselves as part of a shared conceptual field.
- Its central analytical question is whether inhabiting a nonhuman animal avatar can convey what it is like to be that animal, and it presents this as a methodological and ethical debate rather than a settled finding.
- Gualeni (2011) sees games as spaces of experimental ontology that can transcend human subjectivity, Eggertsson (2022) argues they convey nonhuman animal experience through a blend of biological fact and narrative fiction, and Caracciolo (2021) rejects this as illusory and warns it may reinforce human superiority as a colonizing act.
DiGRAJun 2026
Whitepaper5 pages
From Restoration to Extinction: Intersectional Pleasures in Ecological Game Reception
This study compares player reception of two ecological games, Terra Nil (Free Lives, 2023) and Endling: Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios, 2022), across Steam and YouTube, drawing on 3,478 public comments.
- Emotional intensity does not reliably produce ecological consciousness: the study challenges the assumption that games are effective vehicles for environmental messaging, finding a structural ceiling on consciousness-raising.
- Terra Nil and Endling elicit sharply divergent affect, with Terra Nil producing mainly joy and calm (described as meditative) and Endling producing sadness and love, including players reporting crying and maternal feelings toward its fox protagonist.
- Despite these contrasting emotional profiles, ecology-focused orientation converges at roughly 13 percent for both games, showing that differing feelings do not translate into different levels of ecological awareness.
DiGRAJun 2026
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