Philosophical, Cultural and Historical Origins of Contemporary Video Games: A Phenomenological Analysis

Student: Zhavoronkova Ekaterina

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

The academic paper provides an analysis of video games as a cultural phenomenon through examining the applicability of various theoretical frameworks of the game at large. Although video games are a specific phenomenon of modern world to understand it in a holistic manner it is needed to place it in a broader context of the evolution of game practices in the course of human history and revisit the philosophical approaches to game, its social function and culture significance. To conduct a research, literature was analyzed with allowance for political and social conjuncture. An endeavour to rethink contemporary video games utilizing obtained optics is intended to discover the possibilities of implementation of elementary game mechanics and to look behind the elusive horizon of video games development.

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