Ludotopia : Spaces, Places and Territories in Computer Games / Espen Aarseth, Stephan Günzel

• Autore: Aarseth Espen
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 pages)
• Disciplina: 794.8
• Soggetto topico: Space; Place; Maps; Computer Games; Media; Media Aesthetics; Media Theory; Media Studies
• Soggetto non controllato: Computer Games; Maps; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies; Media Theory; Media; Place
• Persona (resp. second.): AarsethEspen; GünzelStephan
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Introduction 7 What Do They Represent? 13 Playing with Sight 41 From Background to Protagonist 61 The Art of Being There 75 Space and Narrative in Computer Games 103 Ludoforming 127 There's No Place Like Home 141 Videogame Wastelands as (Non-)Places and 'Any-Space-Whatevers' 167 The Game and 'The Stack' 185 No End of Worlds 201 Itineraria Picta 215 Distance and Fear 231 The Rhetoric of Game Space 245 Morphology and Meaning in 'Castle Wolfenstein 3D' 271 Combinatorial Explorations 295 Authors 311
• Sommario/riassunto: Where do computer games »happen«? The articles collected in this pioneering volume explore the categories of »space«, »place« and »territory« featuring in most general theories of space to lay the groundwork for the study of spatiality in games. Shifting the focus away from earlier debates on, e.g., the narrative nature of games, this collection proposes, instead, that thorough attention be given to the tension between experienced spaces and narrated places as well as to the mapping of both of these.; »Ein Sammelband, der das relativ breite Forschungsfeld zur Räumlichkeit digitaler Spiele um interessante Ansätze und Thesen erweitert.« Markus Spöhrer, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2-3 (2020)
• Titolo autorizzato: Ludotopia
• ISBN: 3-8394-4730-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910553083203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II