... texts and their franchises. © 2022 by The Regents of the University of California 2022 gesture childhood brand nostalgia franchise music RPGs analysis This is just the beginning of the amazing adventures of Ash and Pikachu. Their journey is destined to be packed with non-stop...

... pattern and of game music as a key component of digital games share similar traits, and so the concept of the former can be valuable when thinking about and studying the latter. To support this proposition, this article presents a short analysis of the game music of Inside (Playdead, 2016) to illustrate...

... finds meaning through interpretation, which is subjective. 5 One of the most prolific writers about musical semiotics, especially for popular music and music in multimedia, is Philip Tagg. 6 His approach involves finding “paramusical fields of connotation” in an “analysis object” (a piece of music...

... complicates analysis by concealing the mechanisms that produce particular musical fragments and by eliding the roles of listener and player/performer. This article examines the tensions inherent in the complementary actions of playing/performing Proteus and listening to/analyzing it, and argues that the game...