Perfection in gameplay: the no hit run as a form of playable re-significance

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Antonio Francisco Campos Méndez
Universidad de Loyola
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4974-680X

With almost half a century behind, video games have become a very popular medium, reaching a wide social range. With their development, video games have found new forms of significance that goes beyond their interactive artifact, transforming the gaming experience into a spectacle for a close public that shares similar ideas in a constant exchange. One of these forms, heir of other dynamics as speedruns, are the no hit runs. This type of gameplay involves beating the game without taking a single hit. This study tries to express those elements included in the no hit experience, their application and the particularities observed in Team Hitless, a group of games and players that coordinates common rules with some others specific for each game.

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No hit, Game mechanics, Gaming experience, Players, Video games

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Campos Méndez, Antonio Francisco. “Perfection in gameplay: the no hit run as a form of playable re-significance”. Hipertext.net, 2024, no. 28, pp. 79-88, doi:10.31009/hipertext.net.2024.i28.07.
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Antonio Francisco Campos Méndez, Universidad de Loyola

PhD Cum Laude on Audiovisual Communication at University of Seville. I study video games from a cultural perspective, their narrative capacities, and the industrial environment of video games development. I have been part of the local committee at DIGRA 2023, celebrated at the School of Communication of the University of Seville.

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