Representing Conflicts in Games: Antagonism, Rivalry, and Competition (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)

Synopsis

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 apt at representing real world conflicts, and this edited volume highlights the intrinsic connection between games and conflict through a set of theoretical and empirical studies. It interrogates the nature and use of conflicts as a fundamental aspect of game design, and how a wide variety of conflicts can be represented in digital and analogue games. The book asks what we can learn from conflicts in games, how our understanding of conflicts change when we turn them into playful objects, and what types of conflicts are still not represented in games. It queries the way games make us think about armed conflict, and how games can help us understand such conflicts in new ways. Offering a deeper understanding of how games can serve political, pedagogical, or persuasive purposes, this volume will interest scholars and students working in fields such as game studies, media studies, and war studies.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

244 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000824872

Related ISBNs:

9781032278278, 9781003297406, 9781032285597

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/30/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Björn Sjöblom, Jonas Linderoth, and Anders Frank

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Björn Sjöblom

Edited by:

Jonas Linderoth

Edited by:

Anders Frank