XIANG, K. (2025). The Scar of Sky: Atmosphere and Caricature. Well Played, 14(1), 117-133. Kexin Xiang In this essay, I’ll address these questions through my experiences in the game’s “Celestial Mountain Island” ( 仙 山 岛 ) area. (Game) atmosphere, however, is something we all instantly resonate with, yet struggle to put into words. To get a clearer grip on it, I’ll follow Böhme (2016, 2021)’s well-established definition and understand it as spatially extended affects – or, in