Our guest this week is Alenda Chang, author of Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. We talk about how environment is represented in games, how it’s interacted with, why destroying things in games can be good, too, and why she’s resisted the term “green games.”

Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 6 – Our Virtual Natural World with Alenda Chang

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Chang is associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.