The work of DXARTS Ph.D. Candidate Chanee Choi featured in Edmond Y. Changs' "Do They See Me as a Virus?": Imagining Asian American Environmental Games in Our Shared Planet in American Studies Journal (AMSJ)’ Vol. 60 No. 3/4. Published January 21, 2022.
Given the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, the national racial reckoning and spike in anti-Asian hate, and the ever-present consequences of climate change and environmental precarity, three recent independent games—Night Flyer (2020) by Mike Ren Yi, Even the Ocean (2016) by Melos Han-Tani and Marina Krittaka, and Pandemic 2020 (2020) by Chanhee Choi—engage the interactions and intersections of game studies, environmental studies, and Asian American studies. All three games demonstrate the power and potential of video games as environmental worldbuilding, environmentalist interventions, and ecocritical play.
PANDEMIC is a 1st person 3D video game in which the player is a COVID-19 virus within a virtual environment, this project is using this game to bring awareness to incidents of discrimination, xenophobia, racism, and violence against Asian Americans during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
You can find the full essay here:
"Do They See Me as a Virus?": Imagining Asian American Environmental Games. Our Shared Planet, American Studies’ Vol. 60 No. 3/4. Published January 21, 2022
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