Games and bereavement : how video games represent attachment, loss, and grief / / Sabine Harrer
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| Autore: |
Harrer Sabine <1984->
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| Titolo: |
Games and bereavement : how video games represent attachment, loss, and grief / / Sabine Harrer
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| Pubblicazione: | Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2019] |
| ©2019 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 794.8019 |
| Soggetto topico: | Video games - Psychological aspects |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Credits 7 Introduction 9 1.1 Videogame Representation 23 1.2 Understanding Bereavement 45 2.1 Of Limit Breaks and Ghost Glitches: Losing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII 69 2.2 "You Were There": Losing Yorda in Ico 85 2.3 Conjugal Love: Losing the Spouse in Passage 105 2.4 Losing Big Brother in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons 121 2.5 "Let's All Be Good Mothers OK": Losing the Badger Cubs in Shelter 143 2.6 Designing for Loss and Grief: A Summary 161 3.1 Grief-Based Game Design: A Case Study on Pregnancy Loss 181 3.2 Ideation with the Bereaved: The Trauerspiel Workshop 193 3.3 Designing Jocoi: A Game about Pregnancy Loss 219 3.4 On the Question of Impact: Evaluating Jocoi 239 Making Space for Grief: Conclusive Thoughts 253 References 261 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make difficult personal feelings tangible. After a brief literary review of grief concepts and videogame theory, the book deep-dives into examples of tragic inter-character relationships from videogame history. Building on these examples, the book presents a case study on pregnancy loss as a potential grief experience that can be validated through game design dialogue. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Games and bereavement |
| ISBN: | 3-8394-4415-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996309116903316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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