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Play between worlds : exploring online game culture / T.L. Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, T. L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Social aspects.
- Video games.
- Fantasy games--Social aspects.
- Fantasy games.
- Role playing--Social aspects.
- Role playing.
- Internet games.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Fantasy games.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "In Play Between Worlds, T.L. Taylor examines multiplayer gaming life as it is lived on the borders, in the gaps - as players slip in and out of complex social networks that cross online and offline space. Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of players participate in a virtual game world in real time, are in fact actively designed for sociability. Games like the popular EverQuest, she argues, are fundamentally social spaces."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Finding New Worlds 1
- 2 Gaming Lifeworlds: Social Play in Persistent Environments 21
- 3 Beyond Fun: Instrumental Play and Power Gamers 67
- 4 Where the Women Are 93
- 5 Whose Game Is This Anyway? 125
- 6 The Future of Persistent Worlds and Critical Game Studies 151.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262284714
- 0262284715
- 1423774574
- 9781423774570
- OCLC:
- 69669806
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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