Response to Plunkett: On place attachment in virtual worlds

Abstract

One of my most vivid recent memories is riding my horse into Mexico for the first time in the open-world videogame Red Dead Redemption. It was late in the day and the sun was hanging low in the sky over the San Luis River, the reflections of distant mountains and rock formations on its rippling surface. The landscape was one of flowering cacti, bleached white sand and brilliant orange rocks.