Mytholudic ecocriticism: Towards an understanding of ecopolitical Ludomythologies in Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

References

1. Abraham, Benjamin J. (2022), Digital Games after Climate Change, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
   [Google Scholar]
2. Abraham, Benjamin J. and Jayemanne, Darshana (2017), ‘Where are all the climate change games? Locating digital games’ response to climate change’, Transformations, 30, pp. 74–94, http://hdl.handle.net/10453/121664. Accessed 14 February 2025.
3. Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max ([1944] 1997), Dialectic of Enlightenment, London and New York: Verso.
   [Google Scholar]
4. Barthes, Roland (1973), Mythologies, London: Jonathan Cape.
   [Google Scholar]
5. Berger, John (1980), About Looking, New York: Pantheon Books.
   [Google Scholar]
6. Bianchi, Melissa (2024), ‘A field guide to monsters: Practices of wildlife watching in video games’, in L. O. de Beke, J. Raessens, S. Werning and G. Farca (eds), Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 559–76.
   [Google Scholar]
7. Bogost, Ian (2007), Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
   [Google Scholar]
8. Camuñas-García, Daniel, Cáceres-Reche, María Pilar and Cambil-Hernández, María de la Encarnación (2023), ‘Maximizing engagement with cultural heritage through video games’, Sustainability, 15:3, n.pag., https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032350.
   [Google Scholar]
9. Chang, Alenda Y. (2019), Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
   [Google Scholar]
10. Chang, Alenda Y. (2022), ‘In defense of play’, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 10:1–2, pp. 15–24, https://doi.org/10.1353/res.2022.a904097.
    [Google Scholar]
11. Chang, Alenda Y. (2024), ‘Change for games: On sustainable design patterns for the (digital) future’, in L. O. de Beke, J. Raessens, S. Werning and G. Farca (eds), Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 73–88.
    [Google Scholar]
12. Cubitt, Sean (2020), Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image, New York: Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
13. Ellwood, Robert (1999), The Politics of Myth: A Study of C.G. Jung, Mirca Eliade, and Joseph Campbell, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
    [Google Scholar]
14. Ford, Dom (2025), Mytholudics: Games and Myth, Berlin and Boston, MA: De Gruyter.
    [Google Scholar]
15. García-Cardona, Juan (2022), ‘The island as a paradise and the touristic impact in the Balearic Islands: A study through the novelized chronicle Balearia and the video game Alba: A Wildlife Adventure’, Revista Internacional De Cultura Visual (Visual Review: International Visual Culture Review), 12:2, pp. 1–10, https://doi.org/10.37467/revvisual.v9.3728.
    [Google Scholar]
16. Garrard, Greg (2010), ‘Heidegger Nazism ecocriticism’, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 17:2, pp. 251–71, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isq029.
    [Google Scholar]
17. Haraway, Donna (1989), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, London: Routledge.
    [Google Scholar]
18. Heehs, Peter (1994), ‘Myth, history, and theory’, History and Theory, 33:1, p. 1, https://doi.org/10.2307/2505649.
    [Google Scholar]
19. Hopper, Nigel G., Gosler, Andrew G., Sadler, Jonathan P. and Reynolds, S. James (2019), ‘Species’ cultural heritage inspires a conservation ethos: The evidence in black and white’, Conservation Letters, 12:3, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12636.
    [Google Scholar]
20. Kaputska, Lawrence A. and Landis, Wayne G. (1998), ‘Ecology: The science versus the myth’, Human and Ecological Risk Management, 4:4, pp. 829–38, https://doi.org/10.1080/10807039891284820.
    [Google Scholar]
21. Latour, Bruno (2004), Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
22. Latour, Bruno (2010), ‘An attempt at a “compositionist manifesto”’, New Literary History, 41:3, pp. 471–90, https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2010.a408295.
    [Google Scholar]
23. McIntyre, Lee (2018), Post-Truth, Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.
    [Google Scholar]
24. Morton, Timothy (2007), Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics, Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
25. Op de Beke, Laura, Raessens, Joost and Werning, Stefan (2024), ‘Ecogames: An introduction’, in L. O. de Beke, J. Raessens, S. Werning and G. Farca (eds), Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 9–70.
    [Google Scholar]
26. Partridge, Christopher (2006), The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volume II: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture, London and New York: Bloomsbury.
    [Google Scholar]
27. Phillips, Dana (2003), The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America, New York: Oxford University Press.
    [Google Scholar]
28. Pierotti, Raymond (2016), ‘The role of myth in understanding nature’, Ethnobiology Letters, 7:2, pp. 6–13, https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.7.2.2016.729.
    [Google Scholar]
29. Rodríguez, Alejandro (2024), ‘Lynx pardinus, Iberian Lynx’, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T12520A218695618.en. Accessed 14 February 2025.
    [Google Scholar]
30. Thunberg, Greta (2021), No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, London: Penguin.
    [Google Scholar]
31. Ustwo, Games (2020), Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, London and Montpellier: Ustwo Games and PID Games.
    [Google Scholar]
32. Vervoort, Joost M., Moossdorff, Carien and Thompson, Kyle A. (2024), ‘Games for better futures: The art and joy of making and unmaking societies’, in L. O. de Beke, J. Raessens, S. Werning and G. Farca (eds), Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 181–98.
    [Google Scholar]
33. Wood, Juliette (2018), Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day, London and New York: Bloomsbury.
    [Google Scholar]