Editorial & Table of Contents

Slavka Pitoňáková

Let’s Give People Games! 2

Game studies:

DB Bauer, Christine Tomlinson

Design, Agency, and In-Game Self: Understanding the Constraints of Age in Digital Games  4-20

Pengze Zheng

Pay-to-Win Power: Chinese Gold Farming and the Trend of Game Monetisation  22-37

Harshit Singh

Narrative Trust in Choice-Based Games: Rethinking Emotional Immersion Through Twine and AAA Dialogue Trees  38-50

Achmad Budiman Sudarsono, Fitri Sarasati, Iqbal Rocki Ulhaq

Between Empowerment and Objectification: Female Character Sensuality in Garena Free Fire  52-65

Leland Masek, Daphne Bachmann, Arttu Lakkala

How to Design a Game Laboratory to Study Games: Theory and Case Study of a Playful Third Space  66-84

Petro Katerynych

From Spectator to Storyteller: FMV Interactive Narratives in Media Production Classrooms  86-103

Giuseppe Ficano

Transcending the Limits of Mankind: The Alchemical Opus and the Jungian Individuation in Bloodborne  104-117

Daniel Bösenberg

Playing Through Seeing: The Case Study of the Painting Quests in Elden Ring  118-131

Reviews:

Monika Cihlářová

StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy  132-134

Diwakar Gautam

Resident Evil Requiem  135-137

Magdaléna Balážiková

Esports Psychology  138-140

Add-ons:

Martin Látal, Veronika Herníková, Karel Vranovský

Will You Press Any Key to Join? A Reflection on the Olomouc Games Conference  142-145