Wandering games / / Melissa Kagen

• Autore: Kagen Melissa
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 pages)
• Disciplina: 794.8
• Soggetto topico: Walking simulator games; Video games
• Soggetto non controllato: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile; COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Work -- Gender -- Colonialism -- Death -- Subversive Walks -- Pedestrian Performance -- Digressive Literature -- Walking in Games -- 2. Late Capitalism: Caring for Corpses in Return of the Obra Dinn -- An Archive of Corpses -- Death and Its Aftermath -- Rendering the "Moment" -- Late Capitalism -- 3. Romantic Precarity: Eastshade as a Fantasy of Work -- Romantic Wandering -- A Labor of Love -- Playing with Precarity -- 4. Walking in Circles: Bodily Constraints in Ritual of the Moon -- Women in Space -- Temporalities under Constraint -- Wandering Wombs -- 5. Traveling Through: Decentering the Explorer in 80 Days -- The Politics of Empty Space -- Traveling Through -- Turning Space into Time -- 6. Language Worlds: Empire and Undoing in Heaven's Vault -- Worlds Made of Words -- Language of Empire -- Decolonial Digressions -- 7. After Life: Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part II -- Postapocalyptic Pastorals -- Endless Wandering -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ludography -- Filmography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In an increasingly hectic world, walking simulators provide a chance for a meditative online experience. Wandering Games will be the first book to explore this genre"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Wandering Games
• ISBN: 0-262-37097-2; 0-262-37098-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910624330003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II