Videogames and Agency (Routledge Advances in Game Studies)

Synopsis

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How do paratextual materials reflect design intention with regards to what the player can and cannot do in a videogame? How does game design shape the possibility space for player action? Through these questions and selected case studies that include AAA and independent games alike, the book presents a unique approach to studying agency that combines game design, game studies, and game developer discourse. By doing so, the book examines what discourses around player action, as well as a game’s design can reveal about the nature of agency and videogame aesthetics. This book will appeal to readers specifically interested in videogames, such as game studies scholars or game designers, but also to media studies students and media and screen studies scholars less familiar with digital games.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

216 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000829877

Related ISBNs:

9781003298786, 9781032285092, 9781032288475

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/13/23

Copyrighted By:

Bettina Bódi The right of Bettina Bódi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.