What is it about?
Video games have used punctuation marks for all types of things in the worlds they represent. From magic potions to questions to incomplete or new info, how they are used is far more robust than a simple punctuation mark. We bring the reader through this history starting with the earliest video games to the present. Along the way, we remark on how designers might find them useful in their own designs.
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Why is it important?
For many years, game designers have been using and adapting these marks. Despite their prevalence and commonality in video games, we do not discuss how they are used, why they are used, and what other uses haven't been considered yet.
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This page is a summary of: A Quest?!: The Secret Life of Gameworld Punctuation, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3611040.
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