The Playful Undead and Video Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book explores the central role of the zombie in contemporary popular culture as they appear in video games. Moving beyond traditional explanation... Lees meer

New Perspectives on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Expanding on the work in the volume Multiplayer , this new book explores several other areas related to social gaming in detail. The aim is to go beyo... Lees meer

Digital Games as History

Adam Chapman

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding hi... Lees meer

Comics and Videogames

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth con... Lees meer

The Paradox of Transgression in Games

Torill Mortensen, Kristine Jørgensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shock... Lees meer

Videogames and Agency

Bettina Bódi

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player fr... Lees meer

Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity

Rob Gallagher

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and... Lees meer

Video Games and Social Competence

Rachel Kowert

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Despite their popularity, online video games have been met with suspicion by the popular media and academic community. In particular, there is a growi... Lees meer

Videogames, Identity and Digital Subjectivity

Rob Gallagher

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and... Lees meer

Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media

Sara M Cole

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Recent shifts in new literacy studies have expanded definitions of text, reading/viewing, and literacy itself. The inclusion of non-traditional media ... Lees meer

Representing Conflicts in Games

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form... Lees meer

Representing Conflicts in Games

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form... Lees meer

Video Games and Social Competence

Rachel Kowert

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Despite their popularity, online video games have been met with suspicion by the popular media and academic community. In particular, there is a growi... Lees meer

The Dark Side of Game Play

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can take on the role of antagonists... Lees meer

Fans and Videogames

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This anthology addresses videogames long history of fandom, and fans' important role in game history and preservation. In order to better understand a... Lees meer

Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games

Michelle Herte

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in o... Lees meer

Hybrid Play

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity--one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjec... Lees meer

Longing, Ruin, and Connection in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding

Amy M Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This volume provides an in-depth examination of the video game Death Stranding , focusing on the game's exploration of ruin, nostalgia, and atonement ... Lees meer

Understanding Counterplay in Video Games

Alan F Meades

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms s... Lees meer

On Soulsring Worlds

Marco Caracciolo

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile... Lees meer

Videogames and Agency

Bettina Bódi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player fr... Lees meer

Videogames and the Gothic

Ewan Kirkland

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, Videogames and... Lees meer

Manifestations of Queerness in Video Games

Gaspard Pelurson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich, political and cultural medium, wh... Lees meer

Digital Games as History

Adam Chapman

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• This book provides the first in-depth exploration of video games as history. Chapman puts forth five basic categories of analysis for understanding hi... Lees meer