"Videogame, Player, Text" examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. With essays from a range of internationally renowned game scholars, the major aim of this collection is to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each essay focuses on specific examples of gameplay dynamics to tease out the specificities of videogames as a new form of interaction between text and digital technology for the purposes of entertainment.
"Videogame, Player, Text" examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. With essays from a range of internationally renowned game scholars, the major aim of this collection is to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each essay focuses on specific examples of gameplay dynamics to tease out the specificities of videogames as a new form of interaction between text and digital technology for the purposes of entertainment.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Barry Atkins is Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Design at the University of Wales, Newport. Tanya Krzywinska is Professor of Screen Studies at Brunel University
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Introduction: Videogame, player, text Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska 1. Beyond Ludus: narrative, videogames and the split condition of digital textuality Marie Laure Ryan 2. All too urban: to live and die in SimCity Matteo Bittanti 3. Play, modality and claims of realism in Full Spectrum Warrior Geoff King 4. Why am I in Vietnam? The history of a video game Jon Dovey 5. "It's Not Easy Being Green": real time game performance in Warcraft Henry Lowood 6. Being a determined agent in (the) World of Warcraft: text/playidentity Tanya Krzywinska 7. Female Quake players and the politics of identity Helen W. Kennedy 8. Of eye candy and id: the terrors and pleasures of Doom 3 Bob Rehak 9. Second Life: the game of virtual life Alison McMahan 10. Playing to solve Savoir Faire Nick Montfort 11. Without a goal on open and expressive games Jesper Juul 12. Pleasure, spectacle and reward in Capcom's Street Fighter series David Surman 13. The trouble with Civilization Diane Carr 14. Killing time: time past, time present and time future in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Barry Atkins
Introduction: Videogame, player, text Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska 1. Beyond Ludus: narrative, videogames and the split condition of digital textuality Marie Laure Ryan 2. All too urban: to live and die in SimCity Matteo Bittanti 3. Play, modality and claims of realism in Full Spectrum Warrior Geoff King 4. Why am I in Vietnam? The history of a video game Jon Dovey 5. "It's Not Easy Being Green": real time game performance in Warcraft Henry Lowood 6. Being a determined agent in (the) World of Warcraft: text/playidentity Tanya Krzywinska 7. Female Quake players and the politics of identity Helen W. Kennedy 8. Of eye candy and id: the terrors and pleasures of Doom 3 Bob Rehak 9. Second Life: the game of virtual life Alison McMahan 10. Playing to solve Savoir Faire Nick Montfort 11. Without a goal on open and expressive games Jesper Juul 12. Pleasure, spectacle and reward in Capcom's Street Fighter series David Surman 13. The trouble with Civilization Diane Carr 14. Killing time: time past, time present and time future in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Barry Atkins
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