The state of play : creators and critics of video game culture /
The state of play : creators and critics of video game culture /
edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson.
- First edition.
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: post-escapism: a new discourse on video game culture / Advent / Bow, nigger / Love, twine, and the end of the world / The natural: the parameters of afro / What it feels like to play the bad guy / A game I had to make / Your humanity is another castle: terror dreams and the harassment of women / The end of gamers / The joy of virtual violence / The squalid grace of Flappy Bird / The making of Dust: architecture and the art of level design / Game over? A cold war kid reflects on apocalyptic video games / Ludus interruptus: video games and sexuality / The God in the machine: occultism, demiurgic theology, and gnostic self-knowledge in Japanese video games / Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson -- Leigh Alexander -- Ian Shanahan -- Anna Anthropy -- Evan Narcisse -- Hussein Ibrahim -- Zoe Quinn -- Anita Sarkeesian & Katherine Cross -- Dan Golding -- Cara Ellison & Brendan Keogh -- Ian Bogost -- David Johnston -- William Knoblauch -- Merritt Kopas -- Ola Wikander.
Sixteen contributors including video game creators, media critics and Internet celebrities discuss the state and stakes of video game culture and describe how the digital world has collided with real-life art, sex and race and class politics. --Publisher's description.
9781609806392 (hardcover) 1609806395 (hardcover)
2015004641
Video games--Social aspects.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: post-escapism: a new discourse on video game culture / Advent / Bow, nigger / Love, twine, and the end of the world / The natural: the parameters of afro / What it feels like to play the bad guy / A game I had to make / Your humanity is another castle: terror dreams and the harassment of women / The end of gamers / The joy of virtual violence / The squalid grace of Flappy Bird / The making of Dust: architecture and the art of level design / Game over? A cold war kid reflects on apocalyptic video games / Ludus interruptus: video games and sexuality / The God in the machine: occultism, demiurgic theology, and gnostic self-knowledge in Japanese video games / Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson -- Leigh Alexander -- Ian Shanahan -- Anna Anthropy -- Evan Narcisse -- Hussein Ibrahim -- Zoe Quinn -- Anita Sarkeesian & Katherine Cross -- Dan Golding -- Cara Ellison & Brendan Keogh -- Ian Bogost -- David Johnston -- William Knoblauch -- Merritt Kopas -- Ola Wikander.
Sixteen contributors including video game creators, media critics and Internet celebrities discuss the state and stakes of video game culture and describe how the digital world has collided with real-life art, sex and race and class politics. --Publisher's description.
9781609806392 (hardcover) 1609806395 (hardcover)
2015004641
Video games--Social aspects.