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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-10-01
Series:Literature
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/4/4/18
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