Adam Mickiewicz University
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2 reports, presentations and talks by Adam Mickiewicz University in the Game Industry Library, the newest “An Analysis of Poetic and the Evolution of the Subgenre of Soulslike Games” (2024).
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Whitepaper17 pages
An Analysis of Poetic and the Evolution of the Subgenre of Soulslike Games
The analysis examines the soulslike subgenre of action role-playing games, tracing its development over more than a decade from its origin in Demon's Souls (2009) and its principal reference point, Dark Souls (2011).
- The soulslike subgenre originated with Demon's Souls (2009) and was shaped by Dark Souls (2011), and the study traces its development over more than a decade.
- The analysis uses Wittgenstein's family-resemblance model and Chandler's prototype model to treat soulslike games as a loosely connected group sharing core traits rather than a rigidly defined category.
- The subgenre's core poetics combine a punishing dark medieval-folklore aesthetic, demanding third-person combat, checkpoint and failure mechanics, and oblique narrative exposition.
Adam Mickiewicz UniversityDec 2024
Article
Realism or Nominalism? The Illusion of Agon in Sex Marking
Jabłoński's article, published in Homo Ludens (2023), argues that grammatical gender in Polish is not the same as biological sex, and that the movement to introduce rigid, symmetrical gender-marked forms, known as feminatives, rests on an "agon" or battle-of-the-sexes framing rather than on linguistic evidence.
- The article argues that grammatical gender in Polish is not the same as biological sex, and that the push for rigid, symmetrical feminatives rests on a naive realism that equates grammatical categories with social reality.
- The author frames the feminative push as an "agon" or battle-of-the-sexes view, in which every masculine form must have a feminine counterpart to avoid discrimination, a zero-sum picture the author rejects.
- The study concludes that asymmetric forms in Polish largely result from systemic neutralization rather than being automatic markers of privilege.
Adam Mickiewicz UniversityNov 2024