Videogames and the Gothic J.R.R. Tolkien When Jackson Bright wears a

When Jackson Bright wears a dress to the last day of school

or explore the rugged Outback

and two dogs work with a community of farmers

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Videogames and the Gothic J.R.R. Tolkien When Jackson Bright wears aBy: Ewan Kirkland Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, the author illustrates the ways particular tropes of Gothic culture neo medieval aesthetics, secret filled labyrinthine spaces, the sense of a dark past impacting upon the present have been appropriated by and transformed within digital games.