Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames (Studies in Gaming) - Softcover

Owen, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476667195 ISBN 13: 9781476667195

Verlag: McFarland, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider? Do you say "Ouch!" when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture? Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like actors in front of a camera, gamers' proprioception, or body awareness, can extend to onscreen characters, thus placing them "physically" within the virtual world. Players may even identify with characters' ideological motivations. The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of videogames--affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate: the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling that suggests fulfillment of Atonin Artaud's vision of the "body without organs."

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David Owen teaches at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He has written essays and articles on theater, digital performance and videogames in The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and The Canadian Theatre Review

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• Verlag: McFarland
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1476667195
• ISBN 13: 9781476667195
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Kapell Matthew Wilhelm
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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