How Do Video Games Express Procedural Rhetoric
He calls on fellow games scholars to interrogate the ways in which computer games, make claims about how things work, in order to reproduce or contest social, cultural, and political processes (2008, p. He argues that games have the power to persuade and express ideas through procedures that enable players to act in the gameworld. TETRIS The system of rules and mechanics conveys the message of the game. How do video games express procedural rhetoric . Colby looks to video games as sites of procedural rhetoric; The expressive power of videogames. The conceptual move that bogost plays in persuasive games deals with the application of the procedural uniqueness of computer games to the expression of serious topics. Bogost introduces procedural rhetoric by analogy to the field of visual rhetoric, placing his work along rhetoric‘s expanding visionary line from orality to visuality to ―procedurality‖ (2). It is this procedural expression, or representation, that bogost carries in...