Susana Tosca’s research while affiliated with Roskilde University and other places

... This pixel art tool is specifically designed to create animations and sprites, allowing for the portrayal of historical themes with artistic clarity (see Figure 5). Pixel art not only invokes the nostalgia of classic games but also serves as a visually simplistic yet effective medium to convey complex historical narratives, ensuring that the educational content is accessible and engaging to learners (Messaris and Humphreys, 2007;Squire, Gee and Jenkins, 2011;Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Smith and Tosca, 2016). ...

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Limes (the Roman Frontier): Developing a Video Game for History Learning

... Steinberg's studies indicate that a particular convergence model in Japan plays a pivotal role in transmedia storytelling, although he often approaches the subject from a commercial marketing and commodity semiotics perspective. Nakamura's analysis [7,8] reveals that the convergence strategy (transmedia storytelling) and divergence strategy (media mix) employed in series such as Gundam can complement each other. They might not represent opposing media strategies but could be interdependent designs. ...

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Exploring Media Mix in Transmedia Storytelling: A Case Study on 'Cyberpunk 2077' and 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners'

... Following further development of computer technology, Bergeron later updated this definition in 2006 to describe the SG as an "interactive computer application, with or without significant hardware component, that has a challenging goal, is fun to play and engaging, incorporates some scoring mechanism, and supplies the user with skills, knowledge, or attitudes useful in reality." SG-based learning experiences are beginning to gain relevance thanks to the growth of the video game industry in recent years (Egenfeldt-Nielsen et al., 2019). ...

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Implementation of serious games in nursing student education: A systematic review

... As a result, groups travel all over the country to learn about the history and culture of the places where their favorite stories occur (Sugawa-Shimada 2015) (Lopez 2019). With its success in the market, Hakuouki was adapted into an anime ( Figure 6) and exported to various countries, receiving translations, and showcasing Japan's culture and history to the world (Sugawa-Shimada 2015) ( In summary, Hakuouki is part of a later generation of Japanese pop cultural products that no longer use the Mukokuseki strategy, especially for Western consumers, attracting legions of fans outside Japan to these transcultural flows, promoting consumption and appropriations of these Japanese historical and cultural narratives (Tosca 2021). Therefore, it can be concluded that Hakuouki and other more recent and English-language marketed Japanese Otome Games have a Japanese cultural odor (Iwabuchi 2002), with Japaneseness being a strong element of interest for foreign fans (Ganzon 2022). ...

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Otome Games: globalization and glocalization processes, conceptualization and data analysis of Brazilian players

... Education provided "through problem-based and experiential learning via the game's procedures" is known as procedural rhetoric [34]. And if the serious game's procedures are defined through a work of interactive fiction, then that interactive fiction serious game can "provide a context for embodied action and choices" [35] and allow the player to "approach a subject in an active way and construct their own representations" [36] to enable and expedite their learning. Although many definitions of interactive fiction exist, a good one is a "textbased branching narrative that takes input from a user, either through a parsing prompt where users type actions for their character to perform or through hypertext links users click to select an action or choice" [14]. ...

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Imparting Systems Engineering Experience via Interactive Fiction Serious Games

... My knowing is rooted in the sociopolitical context of coronavirus, the unprecedented situation of a global pandemic, the relatively relaxed conditions of Sweden, and the privileged position of permanent employment as a professor at Malmö University. Like several other authors in this special issue, my reflections touch upon academic motherhood (Bolander & Smith, 2020;Lee, 2020Sarkar, 2020Torres, 2020;Tosca, 2020) at the crossroads of normativity governing academic work and being a mother to three children (Tsouroufli, 2020). As with many other parents, the constant online presence enforced by coronavirus responses made it difficult to compartmentalize work and home (CohenMiller, 2020). ...

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The Ways of Knowing the Pandemic With the Help of Prompted Autoethnography

... Aktiviteter og forløb I laboratoriet skulle deltagerne fremstille multimodale tekster -noget de kender fra deres eksisterende danskundervisning -men som noget nyt skulle teksterne indeholde lyd og lys via Chibitronics og micro:bits. Tekstproduktionen havde fokus på aestetik som erkendelsesform, frem for aestetik som skønhed, i en kombination af aestetiske, analytiske, håndvaerksmaessige og kommunikative virksomhedsformer Ejsing-Duun & Tosca, 2017). ...

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Udviklingslaboratorier som metode til kompetenceudvikling i teknologiforståelse: Erfaringer med TEKFAG-modellen

... 3 We also have the concept of superwork, developed in library and information science to describe these types of entities , Lee et al. 2018, Zevio, Mihara, & Sugimoto, 2018. And there are, of course, a range of further concepts and frameworks, which all try to somehow capture this supra-work level to which individual works are related in one way or another, such as, for example, the concept of transmedial worlds by Tosca and Klastrup (2019). In the following we will be using the term franchise to refer to this supra-work level, not as a way to disregard the complexity of the entity being tackled here, but rather as a shorthand for these and further potential interpretations without taking a more explicit position on this question for our present discussion. ...

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Utilizing Metadata from Heterogeneous Sources within the Framework of the JVMG and GOLEM Projects to Identify Patterns in Anime-based Fandoms on AO3

... Teachers need to be convinced about the usefulness of using video games in class, and they need to understand how they can evaluate the knowledge acquired [7]. While some remain skeptical, most agree that serious games have great potential for learning [8,9]. ...

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Combined Method for Evaluating Accessibility in Serious Games

... Tosca y Klastrup centraron su atención en la relación entre distintos medios que comparten el mismo universo a partir de tres categorías que conforman la experiencia transmedia de cualquier franquicia: la mundanidad (mythos: antecedentes narrativos o contextos previos; topos: escenografía y elenco; y ethos: idiosincrasia del mundo narrativo), la plataforma y los usuarios (Klastrup y Tosca, 2013;Tosca y Klastrup, 2019). Por tanto, si se atiende a estas tres categorías, se encontraría, en primer término, la mundanidad o el mundo, nombrado así por Fernández Ruiz y García Reyes (2021), que se vincula con la presentación de antecedentes narrativos en los diferentes números de Blacksad y en sus medios transmediales, es decir, tanto el juego de rol como en el videojuego, espacios y personajes, y el carácter ideológico-moral de la sociedad del universo ficcional. ...

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Las variantes de transmediación lúdicas en Blacksad: un breve acercamiento