Video Game Narrative and Criticism

Playing the Story
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52553-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 86 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

The book provides a comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay - a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thabet, T.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computersimulation & Modelle, 3-D Graphik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Modellierung & Simulation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. A Player's Story 2. Game Criticism

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Tamer Thabet presently leads an international research partnership between universities and private sector to explore new horizons in game design and content. His other publications deal with video games in the contexts of postmodernism and humanities, which appear in various academic journals in North and South America and Europe.