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This paper describes Conscientious Objector, a research mod built using the idTech4 engine and assets from the commercial game Doom 3. It was designed to explore the potential for non-lethal force in FPS gaming, and player response to a radically different avatar-NPC relationship.
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Pinchbeck, D. (2008). Conscientious Objector: Pacifism, Politics and Abusing the Player in Doom 3. In: Stevens, S.M., Saldamarco, S.J. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2008. ICEC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5309. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89222-9_22
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