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publications
Enjoying the Uncertainty. How Dark Souls Performs Incompleteness Through Narrative, Gameplay and Level Design
Published in Games and Culture, 2025
This paper is about how Dark Souls encapsulates a form of agency based on the acceptance of limits.
Recommended citation: Andriano, A. M. (2025). "Enjoying the Uncertainty. How Dark Souls Performs Incompleteness Through Narrative, Gameplay and Level Design." Games and Culture. 20(7).
Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Hollow Knight and Rain World
Published in Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, 2025
This paper is about how metroidvania layouts and game mechanics foster environmental imagination and awareness.
Recommended citation: Andriano A. M. & Caracciolo, M. (2025). "Metroidvania Ecologies: Exploration and the Environmental Imagination in Hollow Knight and Rain World." Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture. 16(2).
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Bitter Laughter. Five Color Rice
Published in Scholars Codex, 2026
This paper is about how soulslike games employ irony as a metacommunicative tool.
Recommended citation: Andriano A. M. (2026). "Bitter Laughter: Five Color Rice." In Vella, D.; Gualeni, S.; Van de Mosselaer, N.; Ford, D. (eds.). Scholars Codex. Tune and Fairweather. 230-239.
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The Aesthetics of Failure in Videogames. Beyond the Immersion/Emersion Dicothomy
Published in Aisthesis, 2026
This paper is about how failure in videogames can foster aesthetically rich effects on players and how to use it effectively depending on the effect intended.
Recommended citation: Andriano A. M. (2026). "The Aesthetics of Failure in Videogames. Beyond the Immersion/Emersion Dicothomy." Asisthetis.
talks
Metroidvania Ecologies
Published:
Conference talk delivered with Marco Caracciolo (Associate Professor at Ghent University). Conference page.
Immersive Irony in Videogames
Published:
Conference talk delivered at Games and Games studies Beyond Postmodernism conference, about cultural perspectives alternative to postmodernism. Conference page.
The Aesthetics of Problem Solving in Videogames
Published:
Conference talk delivered at the conference orginized by PEA project about rule governed artifacts. Conference page.
The Aesthetics of Failure in Videogames
Published:
Conference talk delivered at the Eastern Division of the American Society for Aesthetics. Conference page.
The Pitfalls of Embodiment. Imagi(NI)ng Non-Human Perception Across Cinema, VR and Videogames
Published:
Conference talk delivered with Pietro Conte (Associate Professor at University of Milan). Conference page.
Forensic Play. The Aesthetics of Rules Exploration in Videogames
Published:
Seminar talk about the attitude of players of exploring the rules of the game as an intrinsically motivating activity.
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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