Publications

Journal Articles

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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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).

Book Chapters

Bitter Laughter. Five Color Rice

Published in Scholars Codex, 2026

This paper is about how soulslike games employ irony as a metacommunicative tool.