Lately, there are
many games which include moral choice as one of their features. Games such as
Fable, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Skyrim will determine whether the action that
player did is good or bad, and give the consequence based on how well mannered the
player in the game. Personally, not only it makes game more interesting and
gives much agency to the player, but also I believe it could help the player to
measure the morality of every action that s/he did in their lives. Even though
currently there are no evidence showed that the player who plays a game with
moral choice feature increased in the number of his/her moral action (at least
from what I know), I think it’s a good idea to see how exactly some action are seen
as having positive or negative moral value. By doing so, maybe we can further
improve the moral choice in our game.
Through out my
research, there are two theories about moral value that captivated me. They are
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development and Kant’s moral philosophy.
