Stefan Werning

Stefan Werning works as Associate Professor for Digital Media and Game Studies at Utrecht University, where he organizes the annual ‘Multidisciplinary Game Research’ summer school and coordinates the special interest group ‘Thinking Through Games’ within the Game Research focus area. He obtained his PhD (2010) in media studies from Bonn University and his venia legendi at Bayreuth University (2015). Stefan has been a visiting scholar (2005) and fellow (2006-2010) at the program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Moreover, he has worked in the digital games industry, most notably at Codemasters (2005) and Nintendo of Europe (2007-09).
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In Mediaobject: Fe:
While introducing interesting mechanics and potentially fostering interspecies thinking, Fe's worldbuilding, graphical style, soundtrack etc. appear somewhat Disney-esque and do...

In Mediaobject: Hollow Knight: Silksong:
While Silksong is not explicitly framed as an 'ecogame', it exhibits several relevant design aspects: The motif of a ruined...

In Mediaobject: The Lion King (1994):
Jean Trenton argues that The Lion King presents an "androcentric society inhabited by nonhuman animals" and suggests androcentrism, i.e. a...

In Mediaobject: Poika ja ilves [Tommy and the Lynx]:
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In Mediaobject: Fantastic futures? Cli-fi, climate justice, and queer futurity:
Addresses the concept of "allegorical fantasy" (100-101, 105)


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