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Video Game Narrative and Criticism : Playing the Story by Tamer Thabet (2015, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-101137525533

ISBN-139781137525536

eBay Product ID (ePID)210293844

Product Key Features

Number of PagesVIII, 86 Pages

Publication NameVideo Game Narrative and Criticism : Playing the Story

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMedia Studies, Internet / General, Computer Simulation, General, Video & Electronic

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

AuthorTamer Thabet

Subject AreaComputers, Social Science, Games & Activities

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight9.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-452261

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal793.93019

SynopsisThe book provides a comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay - a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games., With impunity, millions of players traverse the fictional landscapes of video games every day. Video Game Narrative and Criticism treats gameplay as the player's own psychological experience where fears, desires, and anxieties are projected onto the game's fictional world. By exploring the structural peculiarities of storytelling in video games, the book develops a critical paradigm that explains the meaning of gameplay as self-discovery. The player-response criticism considers the nature of game fiction by centralizing the player in the analysis. This interpretative model is not a rigorous analytical toolbox. Rather, it responds flexibly to the essential fluidity, temporality, and openness of a player's own experience in an intelligent fictional world.

LC Classification NumberP87-96