Playing a Life in Nina Freeman's Automedia Game, Cibele

This essay establishes a framework for studying automedia games—games that have an automedia narrative/disclosure—through an analysis of Nina Freeman's Cibele. Using this framework, I argue that Cibele challenges the misogyny of a gamer culture that has a "vision of digital culture [as] . . . disembodied and immaterial" (Losh), and instead presents the play of video games as embodied, material, affective, and relational.