Franklin

a| 2016034475

a| 9781501316616 q| (hardcover q| alkaline paper)

a| 1501316613 q| (hardcover q| alkaline paper)

z| 9781501316623 q| (electronic publication)

z| 9781501316630 q| (electronic book)

a| (OCoLC)ocn962552911

a| (OCoLC)962552911

a| (PU)7627022-penndb-Voyager

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a| PAUU

a| GV1469.3 b| .F37 2017

a| 794.8 2| 23

a| Fassone, Riccardo, e| author. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016040903

a| Every game is an island : b| endings and extremities in video games / c| Riccardo Fassone.

a| New York, NY : b| Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc, c| 2017.

c| ©2017

a| vi, 196 pages ; c| 25 cm

a| text b| txt 2| rdacontent

a| unmediated b| n 2| rdamedia

a| volume b| nc 2| rdacarrier

a| Includes a Ludography: pages [187]-189 [definition: a list of games].

a| Includes bibliographical references and index.

a| Includes Filmography.

g| 1 t| Two Non-definitive Definitions g| 7 -- t| What is a video game? g| 7 -- t| The exceptionality of video games g| 11 -- t| Computer-mediated games g| 17 -- t| Designed procedural experiences g| 23 -- g| 2 t| Game ↔ Game g| 41 -- t| Closure g| 43 -- t| Caesura g| 53 -- t| Endlessness g| 65 -- t| Openness g| 74 -- g| 3 t| Game ↔ Metagame g| 85 -- t| Fragmentation g| 86 -- t| Metagaming g| 98 -- t| Immersion g| 106 -- t| Holism g| 115 -- g| 4 t| Game ↔ Games g| 127 -- t| Uniqueness g| 129 -- t| Ephemerality g| 138 -- t| Modularity g| 145 -- t| Serialization g| 154.

a| Despite the pervasive rhetorics of immersion and embodiment found in industrial and social discourses, playing a video game is an exercise in non-linearity. The pervasiveness of trial and error mechanics, unforgiving game over screens, loading times, minute tweakings of options and settings, should lead us to consider video games as a medium that cannot eschew fragmentation. Every Game is an Island is an analysis and a critique of grey areas, dead ends, and extremities found in digital games, an exploration of border zones where play and non-play coexist or compete. Riccardo Fassone describes the complexity of the experience of video gameplay and brings integral but often overlooked components of the gameplay experience to the fore, in an attempt to problematize a reading of video games as grandiosely immersive, all-encompassing narrative experiences. Through the analysis of closures and endings, limits and borders, and liminal states, this field-advancing study looks at the heart of a medium starting from its periphery. Book jacket.

a| Video games x| Design. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006004108

a| Video games x| Design. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1166425

a| Video games x| Psychological aspects. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010117815

a| Video games x| Psychological aspects. 2| fast 0| http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1166438

i| Online version: a| Fassone, Riccardo, author. t| Every game is an island. d| New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc, [2017] z| 9781501316623 w| (DLC) 2016052646

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