Playing dystopia nightmarish worlds in video games and the player's aesthetic response
Video games today permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating game-worlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to thei...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld
Transcipt Verlag
2018, 2018
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| Series: | Studies of Digital Media Culture
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Video games today permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating game-worlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the enacted events. Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player's aesthetic response to their nightmarish game-worlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own 'offline' environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and political developments. In his analysis, Farca draws from a variety of research fields, such as literary theory and game studies, combining them into a coherent theory of aesthetic response to dystopian games |
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| Item Description: | 5.1.1 Between Estranged Order and Creative Disorder: On the Notion of Precarious Play |
| Physical Description: | 435 pages |
| ISBN: | 3839445973 |