TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldberg,Daniel
AU  - Larsson,Linus
TI  - The state of play: creators and critics of video game culture 
SN  - 9781609806392 (hardcover)
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Seven Stories Press
KW  - Video games
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: post-escapism: a new discourse on video game culture; Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson --; Advent; Leigh Alexander --; Bow, nigger; Ian Shanahan --; Love, twine, and the end of the world; Anna Anthropy --; The natural: the parameters of afro; Evan Narcisse --; What it feels like to play the bad guy; Hussein Ibrahim --; A game I had to make; Zoe Quinn --; Your humanity is another castle: terror dreams and the harassment of women; Anita Sarkeesian & Katherine Cross --; The end of gamers; Dan Golding --; The joy of virtual violence; Cara Ellison & Brendan Keogh --; The squalid grace of Flappy Bird; Ian Bogost --; The making of Dust: architecture and the art of level design; David Johnston --; Game over? A cold war kid reflects on apocalyptic video games; William Knoblauch --; Ludus interruptus: video games and sexuality; Merritt Kopas --; The God in the machine: occultism, demiurgic theology, and gnostic self-knowledge in Japanese video games; Ola Wikander
N2  - 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
ER  -