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9780203887660

The Video Game Theory Reader 2

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203887660

  • ISBN10:

    0203887662

  • Copyright: 2008-11-07
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turning their attention to next-generation platforms-the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360-and to new issues in the rapidly expanding field of video games studies. The contributors are some of the most renowned scholars working on video games today including Henry Jenkins, Jesper Juul, Eric Zimmerman, and Mia Consalvo. While the first volume had a strong focus on early video games, this volume also addresses more contemporary issues such as convergence and MMORPGs. The volume concludes with an appendix of nearly 40 ideas and concepts from a variety of theories and disciplines that have been usefully and insightfully applied to the study of video games.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
The Essays:
Gaming Literacy: Game Design as a Model for Literacy in the 21st Century
Philosophical Game Design
The Video Game Aesthetic: Play as Form
Embodiment and Interface Andreas Gregersen and Torben Grodal
Understanding Video Games as Emotional Experiences
In the Frame of the Magic Cycle: The Circle(s) of Gameplay
Understanding Digital Playability
Z-axis Development in the Video Game
Retro Reflexivity: La-Mulana, an 8-Bit Period Piece
"This is Intelligent Television": Early Video Games & Television in the Emergence of the Personal Computer
Too Many Cooks: Media Convergence and Self-Defeating Adaptations
Fear of Failing? The Many Meanings of Difficulty in Video Games
Between Theory and Practice: The GAMBIT Experience
Synthetic Worlds as Experimental Instruments
Lag, Language, & Lingo: Theorizing Noise in Online Game Spaces
Getting into the Game: Doing Multi-Disciplinary Game Studies
Appendix: Video Games Through Theories and Disciplines
Works Cited
About the Contributors
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