Details

Subjects:

Ethnology -- Middle West.
Video games industry -- Social aspects -- Middle West.
Video game designers -- Job satisfaction -- Middle West.
Video games industry -- Employees -- Job satisfaction -- Middle West.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Summary:

"This book reveals the unequal politics of game development as a dream job, which only privileged subjects can enjoy, while many others have to face significant social and individual costs"--- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production?
The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work?
The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction
Gaming the city : how Studio Desire revitalized a downtown space in the Silicon Prairie
The production of communicative developers in the affective game studio
Reproducing technomasculinity : spouses' classed femininities and domestic labor
Game testers as precarious second-class citizens : degradation of fun, instrumentalization of play
Production error : layoffs hit the core creatives
Conclusion : reimagining labor and love in and beyond game production.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-4654-5

OCLC:

1110150329

Publisher Number:

10.7591/9781501746543 doi