Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames - Couverture souple

Owen, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1476667195 ISBN 13 : 9781476667195

Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider? Do you say "Ouch!" when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture?

Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like actors in front of a camera, gamers' proprioception, or body awareness, can extend to onscreen characters, thus placing them "physically" within the virtual world. Players may even identify with characters' ideological motivations.

The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of videogames--affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate: the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling that suggests fulfillment of Atonin Artaud's vision of the "body without organs."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

David Owen teaches at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He has written essays and articles on theater, digital performance and videogames in The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and The Canadian Theatre Review.

Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McFarland & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1476667195
• ISBN 13: 9781476667195
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Kapell Matthew Wilhelm
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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