You find the abstract of a paper:
āāHarvey sucks because he still charges you for passing out even if youāre marriedā: Stardew Valley and Ludonarrative Dissonance
Depending on where you go in fandom spaces, Doctor Harvey of the popular indie game Stardew Valley is either beloved as an ideal malewife, or beloathed as a miser who delights in taking up to 10% of your total monetary worth nearly every time you reach the end of an in-game day without hitting the Go To Sleep button yourself.
However, this criticism falls prey to the pitfalls of ludonarrative dissonanceāthere exists in the game Doctor Harvey: the Character, and Doctor Harvey: the Game Mechanic.
In this essay we will explore these differences of categories which in truth share only a name, and I will use the phrase ludonarrative dissonance as many times as possible because I like how it feels traveling through my brain. Also leave Harvey alone itās not his fault there was no additional coding done to change his behavior as a game mechanic post-marriageāā
You find the rest of the essay scattered in torn and bloody pieces on the floor, with the presumable author beaten to the pulp on the tiles with the phrase SHUT UP NERD scrawled above them in their own blood.
