The Player's Power to Change the Game

Ludic Mutation
0. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-8964-772-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 238 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 294 g

Reihe: MediaMatters

In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogramed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schleiner, Anne-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Player's Power to Change the Game, 1. Lightness of Digital Doll Play, 2. Modding: Cross-Over Mutation and Unwelcome Gifts, 3. Activist Game Rhetoric: Clockwork Worlds, Broken Toys, and Harrowing Missions, 4. City as Military Playground: Contested Urban Terrain, 5. Toys of Biopolis, 6. A Tactical Sketchbook for Ludic Mutation, Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne-Marie Schleiner is engaged in gaming and media culture in a variety of roles as a critic, theorist, activist, artist, and designer. She has exhibited in international galleries, museums and festivals. Documentation of her performative culture work is available on the Video Data Bank. She holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has taught at universities in the United States, Mexico, and Singapore, and is a Lecturer in Design at the University of California, Davis.