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"Despite dying over 100 years before the release of
Pong, the novelist
Charles Dickens has connections to a number of videogames. He appears as a
character in
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (2015); is the subject of a mobile
app walking-tour,
Charles Dickens London: The Writer’s Journey (2022); and
his works are brought to virtual life in the forthcoming
The Mysteries of
Gad’s Hill Place.
There’s also plenty in Dickens’ work to suggest that were he alive today, he
may be writing his own videogames as well as appearing in them.
Great Expectations (1861) in particular demonstrates Dickens’ ludic
credentials. A sense of progression is common in the Bildungsroman or
“progress” novel, but Pip seems to embody ideas of “levelling-up” more
reminiscent of a playable character accumulating XP (experience points) than a
typical protagonist."
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