Side-Eye from the Side Kid: Child Sidekicks as Disciplinary Tools in Contemporary Video Games
In this article, I analyse the function of supporting child-characters in contemporary videogames. I integrate Stephen Zimmerly’s typology of sidekicks in Young Adult literature with critical writing on the ‘Daddening’ of videogames, a coinage that refers to the rise in the number of videogames that...
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| Main Author: | Emma Joy Reay |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/4/4/18 |
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