Gabriele Aroni is Senior Lecturer in Game Arts at the School of Digital Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

This work by Gabriele Aroni is highly significant, having implications for the ways in which virtual architectures are evolving structurally, symbolically, and aesthetically, and how video game architecture provides a framework for understanding digital ways of creating texts. Aroni looks penetratingly at the points of contact between digital and real-world architecture and art, utilizing both semiotic concepts and the theory of anticipatory play. Aroni shows that the virtual world is both a representation of the real world and an interpretation of its possibilities, extending it considerably through virtual architecture.

• Introduction 1. The Semiotics of Architecture 2. The Semiotics of Digital Games Spaces3. Assassin’s Creed II 4. Final Fantasy XV 5. NaissanceEConclusionsFurther Research Bibliography Ludography Works of Art

Gabriele Aroni is Senior Lecturer in Game Arts at the School of Digital Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

This work by Gabriele Aroni is highly significant, having implications for the ways in which virtual architectures are evolving structurally, symbolically, and aesthetically, and how video game architecture provides a framework for understanding digital ways of creating texts. Aroni looks penetratingly at the points of contact between digital and real-world architecture and art, utilizing both semiotic concepts and the theory of anticipatory play. Aroni shows that the virtual world is both a representation of the real world and an interpretation of its possibilities, extending it considerably through virtual architecture.

• Introduction 1. The Semiotics of Architecture 2. The Semiotics of Digital Games Spaces3. Assassin’s Creed II 4. Final Fantasy XV 5. NaissanceEConclusionsFurther Research Bibliography Ludography Works of Art

Gabriele Aroni is Senior Lecturer in Game Arts at the School of Digital Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

This work by Gabriele Aroni is highly significant, having implications for the ways in which virtual architectures are evolving structurally, symbolically, and aesthetically, and how video game architecture provides a framework for understanding digital ways of creating texts. Aroni looks penetratingly at the points of contact between digital and real-world architecture and art, utilizing both semiotic concepts and the theory of anticipatory play. Aroni shows that the virtual world is both a representation of the real world and an interpretation of its possibilities, extending it considerably through virtual architecture.

• Introduction 1. The Semiotics of Architecture 2. The Semiotics of Digital Games Spaces3. Assassin’s Creed II 4. Final Fantasy XV 5. NaissanceEConclusionsFurther Research Bibliography Ludography Works of Art