Videogame, player, text (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Atkins, Barry; Krzywinska, Tanya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. That modes of engagement with the videogame text are many and varied, and construct the playing subject in different ways, provides the central theme of Videogame,player, text. Online play, clan membership, competitive or co-operative play, player modification of game texts, and the solo play of a single player are each addressed through individual analyses of the gameplay experiences produced by, for example, The Sims, Grand Theft Auto, Prince of Persia, Doom, Quake, World of Warcraft, StreetFighter and Civilisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526185600
• Artikelnr.: 72333538

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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