Agata Waszkiewicz

Metagames (eBook, PDF)

Games about Games

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Metagames: Games About Games scrutinizes how various meta devices, such as breaking the fourth wall and unreliable narrator, change and adapt when translated into the uniquely interactive medium of digital games.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003861232
• Artikelnr.: 69854522

Autorenporträt

Agata Waszkiewicz, Ph.D., is a game scholar whose interests include metafictional and experimental video games, the representation of non-normative identities in digital games, and the intersections between food and game studies. They are an author of Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games (DeGruyter, 2022) and they hold the position of a Secretary of DiGRA Central Eastern Europe chapter (2022-2025).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

1. Fourth-Wall Breaking and the Twofold Play

2. Hypermediation and the Hypervisible Interface

3. Unreliable Narrator and the Playable Exaggeration

4. Abusive Game Design and Masocore Games

5. Fragmentation and Mini-Games

6. Parody and the Edges of Metagames

Conclusions