RT Article
T1 Virtually Sacred: Sacred Space, Ritual, and Narrative in Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and The Talos Principle
JF Journal of religion and popular culture
VO 29
IS 1
SP 55
OP 68
A1 Atkinson, Andrew
LA English
PB University of Saskatchewan
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/157152181X
AB This article explores the use of sacred space in contemporary video games, arguing that there are two dominant moments of unconsciously secular engagement with sacred space that are quite common in gaming, and are present, in particular, in the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series—one attracting the gamer to the space, the second transgressing the rituals of reverence associated with the space. There is a third, less dominant, perhaps emerging trend in gameplay that recreates sacred space and attitudes according to the semiotics and/or spatial reconfiguration internal to the game. I critique this approach in Monument Valley, Fez, and The Talos Principle.
K1 Assassin's Creed
K1 Far Cry
K1 Fez
K1 historiographical metafiction
K1 Monument Valley
K1 Notre Dame Cathedral
K1 Play
K1 Sacred Space
K1 Secularism
K1 The Talos Principle
DO 10.3138/jrpc.29.1.3976