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If caring becomes owning, and owning becomes tiring
Examine systems of care in video games that feed on attachment and ownership.
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Wantong Yao : Game design, concept, visuals, and programmingIf caring becomes owning, and owning becomes tiring examines systems of care in video games that feed on attachment and ownership between the player-character relationship. Hoping to undo this caring system, this game=>simulation work proposes a new caring through deliberate detachment.