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Parody of educational games
Valtonen, Zuzana ; Švelch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Švelch, Jan (referee)
The work deals with the analysis of parody in computer games. Specifically, a parody of educational games. This work examines five computer parody games Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning, Baldi's Fun New School, Baldina's Basis in Education Literary Grammar, Frog Fractions and Supervised Driver's Education. In selected parody games, work describes the elements of parody, which are then interpreted using three theoretical approaches to humour, which are the theory of incongruence, the theory of superiority and the theory of relief. The work tries to find out how the contexts of educational games and parodies are related by means of the analysis of selected games. It qualitatively examines the themes, mechanics and audio-visual aspects of both genres and then compares them. Furthermore, the work discusses the history of educational games and their shortcomings, which are related to the significant expansion of parodies in the 90s. Among other things, it describes the function of parody on the examples of the most frequently ridiculed game conventions first-person shooter, boss fight and achievement system. At the end of the thesis, he mentions the universality of parody within another genre and gives an example of parody of parody, which is a parody musical played on YouTube, parodying the...
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