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date: 23 January 2021

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Through a gamer-centric approach of the videoludic experience, this chapter attempts to provide a methodological tool to analyze the notion of listening in videogames. On one hand, it demonstrates how videoludic listening is conditioned by other listening practices and gamer-acquired knowledge related to the various cultural series associated with videogames. On the other, it advocates that listening to videogames is also relative to the media itself, and inescapably linked with the perceptions, actions, and decision-making processes of a gamer playing a game. This chapter is complemented by an analysis of the game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Naughty Dog, 2009) that aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the aforementioned methodological tool.

Keywords: videogames, sound, listening, cultural series, experience, methodological tool

Guillaume Roux-Girard

Guillaume Roux-Girard is a Ph. D. student in film studies at University of Montreal. His current research focus on sound and listening in videogames. His current research focuses on the sound aesthetics of videogames. His recent publications include entries about sound and the Metal Gear series in the Encyclopedia of Video Games (ABC-Clio Press 2012), and a chapter about sound in horror videogames in the anthology Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (IGI Global 2011).

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