SPEEDRUNNERS GAME COMMON SENSE MEDIA FREE
The authors argue that while speedrunners may seem to be breaking the game, they are in fact demonstrating a truly free will, whereas, the game itself is transformed into a zombie, a form whose will, the narrative and design, has been succumbed to the players will, likening it to a voodoo zombie.
Speedrunning is usually seen as a transgressive form of play, as attested by game developers’ frequent attempts at patching exploitable game mechanics. Speedrunning is to a game what a zombie apocalypse is to society it breaks it apart but enables clever ways of survival. In the study, speedrunning serves as an allegory to the traditional zombie catastrophe depictions. This study aims to add to the still sparse collection of research on speedrunning and to explore its role as an emergent form of cultural activity as well as shed light on what possibilities video games can provide for us. In the analysis of the runs, they have relied on the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari, the functional approaches f or seeing how games and players affect each other and form an interactive ensemble.
These runs were selected for the case study due to their practicality in providing information on the subject through the insightful explanations on what is going on in the run. An independent scholar Fraser McKissack and Lawrence May from the University of Auckland, both having an interest in horror games and cinematography, have assessed speedrunning from a zombie media archetype perspective through an analysis of two live broadcast speedruns of the game Left 4 dead during Awesome Games Done Quick marathon.
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