Barry Atkins

More than a game (eBook, ePUB)

The computer game as fictional form

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795588
• Artikelnr.: 42371860

Autorenporträt

Barry Atkins is Lecturer in English and Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

1. The computer game as fictional form i) The postmodern temptation ii)
Reading game-fictions 2. Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider i) Lara
Crost: Action hero ii) Tomb Raider as quest narrative iii) Beating the
system 3. Gritty realism: reading Half-Life i) Welcome to Black Mesa ii) I
am a camera 4. Replaying history: reading Close Combat i) History in
real-time ii) Counterfactual gameplay 5. Managing the real: reading SimCity
i) The many worlds of SimCity ii) SimCity limits 6. More than a game? i)
Realism is dead, long live realism ii) The shape of things to come iii) The
computer game as fictional form revisited Glossary of specific game terms
Bibliography