Traveling Through Video Games

Author : Tom van Nuenen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003827179
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling through Video Games written by Tom van Nuenen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism, and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification. Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies, the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Minecraft, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity, summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds, the elusive nature of freedom and control, and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptive—but through design choices, players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference between moving through a game world, and being moved by it. This interdisciplinary and innovative study will interest students and scholars of digital media studies, game studies, tourism and technology, and the Digital Humanities.

Author : Tom Van Nuenen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032519500
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Through Video Games written by Tom Van Nuenen and published by . This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism, and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification. Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies, the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic forms of gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Minecraft, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity, summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds, the elusive nature of freedom and control, and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptive-but through design choices, players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference between moving through a game world, and being moved by it. This interdisciplinary and innovative study will interest students and scholars of digital media studies, game studies, tourism and technology, and the Digital Humanities"--

Author : Pete Etchells
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785785060
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in a Good Game written by Pete Etchells and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Etchells writes eloquently ... A heartfelt defence of a demonised pastime' The Times 'Once in an age, a piece of culture comes along that feels like it was specifically created for you, the beats and words and ideas are there because it is your life the creator is describing. Lost In A Good Game is exactly that. It will touch your heart and mind. And even if Bowser, Chun-li or Q-Bert weren't crucial parts of your youth, this is a flawless victory for everyone' Adam Rutherford When Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea. In this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us. At the same time, Lost in a Good Game is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively new technology) under.

Author : Jim Rossignol
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472033972
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Gaming Life written by Jim Rossignol and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA look at what it's like to play video games, their cultures in three different international cities, and their significance in everyday life/div

Author : Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137585269
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tragic Time in Drama, Film, and Videogames written by Rebecca Bushnell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how performance and new media can challenge common assumptions about tragic causality and fate. Traditional tragedies may present us with a present when a calamity is staged, a decisive moment in which everything changes. However, modern performance, adaptation and new media can question the premises of that kind of present crisis and its fatality. By offering replays or alternative endings, experimental theatre, adaptation, time travel films and videogames reinvent the tragic experience of irreversible present time. This book offers the reader a fresh understanding of tragic character and agency through these new media’s exposure of the genre’s deep structure.

Author : Roberto Dillon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439873240
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Video Games written by Roberto Dillon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene.

Author : Ian Bogost
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452949875
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Talk about Videogames written by Ian Bogost and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster. In How to Talk about Videogames, leading critic Ian Bogost explores this paradox more thoroughly than any other author to date. Delving into popular, familiar games like Flappy Bird, Mirror’s Edge, Mario Kart, Scribblenauts, Ms. Pac-Man, FarmVille, Candy Crush Saga, Bully, Medal of Honor, Madden NFL, and more, Bogost posits that videogames are as much like appliances as they are like art and media. We don’t watch or read games like we do films and novels and paintings, nor do we perform them like we might dance or play football or Frisbee. Rather, we do something in-between with games. Games are devices we operate, so game critique is both serious cultural currency and self-parody. It is about figuring out what it means that a game works the way it does and then treating the way it works as if it were reasonable, when we know it isn’t. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture, severing it from the “rivers and fields” that sustain it. As essential as it is, he calls for its pursuit to unfold in this spirit: “God save us from a future of games critics, gnawing on scraps like the zombies that fester in our objects of study.”

Author : GAMELADE
Publisher : Digi GrowBig
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Journey Through Gaming Worlds written by GAMELADE and published by Digi GrowBig. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an exhilarating odyssey through the immersive and captivating realms of video games with "A Journey Through Gaming Worlds: Traversing the Multiverse of Video Games." In this captivating exploration, readers will delve into the evolution, creation, and allure of gaming worlds, from the fantastical realms of high fantasy to the futuristic galaxies of science fiction. From the origins of virtual realities to the revolutionary potential of virtual reality technology, this book offers a comprehensive journey into the diverse landscapes and narratives that define modern gaming. Whether you're a seasoned gamer or a curious enthusiast, prepare to be transported to new dimensions as we unravel the secrets and significance of gaming worlds in shaping our digital age.

Author : Dietmar Meinel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110675234
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Video Games and Spatiality in American Studies written by Dietmar Meinel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While video games have blossomed into the foremost expression of contemporary popular culture over the past decades, their critical study occupies a fringe position in American Studies. In its engagement with video games, this book contributes to their study but with a thematic focus on a particularly important subject matter in American Studies: spatiality. The volume explores the production, representation, and experience of places in video games from the perspective of American Studies. Contributions critically interrogate the use of spatial myths ("wilderness," "frontier," or "city upon a hill"), explore games as digital borderlands and contact zones, and offer novel approaches to geographical literacy. Eventually, Playing the Field II brings the rich theoretical repertoire of the study of space in American Studies into conversation with questions about the production, representation, and experience of space in video games.

Author : TomᚠJirsa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501398016
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Music Videos written by TomᚠJirsa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling Music Videos offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on how contemporary music videos travel across, shape, and transform various media, online platforms, art institutions, and cultural industries worldwide. With the onset of digital technologies and the proliferation of global video-sharing websites at the beginning of the 21st century, music video migrated from TV screens to turn instead to the internet, galleries, concert stages, and social media. As a result, its aesthetics, technological groundings, and politics have been radically transformed. From the kinaesthetic experience of TikTok to the recent reimaginations of maps and navigation tools through music video cartographies, from the ecofeminist voices mediated by live-stream concerts to the transmedia logic of video games and VR, from the videos' role in contemporary art galleries to their political interventions -the chapters map the ways music video is continually reconfiguring itself. The volume tracks music video's audiovisual itineraries across different geographies, maps its transmedia routes, and tackles the cultural impact that it has on our current media ecosystem.