Videogame, player, text - Softcover

 
9780719074011: Videogame, player, text
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719074010 ISBN 13: 9780719074011
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Videogame, player, text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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

Tanya Krzywinska is Professor of Screen Studies at Brunel University

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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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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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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719074010
ISBN 13 
9780719074011
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
266
Herausgeber
Atkins Barry, Krzywinska Tanya
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