The educational and pedagogical mission of the Laboratory was also to allow future teachers to experiment in a protected environment, the university one, the video game principles applicable even in disadvantaged class contexts. This last circumstance can occur in many school complexes, unfortunately still lacking adequate structures and instruments. The aim was to enable students, future teachers, to build, in teams, a video game environment that could be reproduced even in the absence of the digital devices on which it is usually implemented and through which it can be reproduced. The authors of this essay analyze the educational opportunities offered by video games by experimenting with an unplugged design, carried out within the framework of a Laboratory of Educational Technologies at the Degree Course in Primary Education Sciences at the University of Roma Tre. Hence the worlds created by Amanita Design seem to be the answer to the dominant hyper-realistic aesthetics of mainstream games. The new reality, however radically anti-realistic, does not try to pretend to be something else than itself. Every time they set a spatially complex structure in the two-dimensional environment of the game, it manages, despite its fantastic nature, to maintain its full integrity. The creators base their technique on a deconstruction of one reality, and at the same time they build entirely new worlds. Such refined structure of virtual assemblage seems to escape the concept of simulacrum. The structure of these game cluster spaces is built not only from material artefacts of human culture but also from the elements of nature. These examples are particularly interesting as the artistic technique in this case goes beyond the aesthetic aspects (visual art and music) and the narration, and actively informs the gameplay. This paper will show how the collage technique actively influences the structure of Amanita Designs’ games, such as Samorost series, Botanicula, Machinarium.
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