Videogames for humans : Twine authors in conversation / edited by Merritt Kopas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kopas, Merritt, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Role playing--Social aspects.

Role playing.

Leisure--Social aspects.

Leisure.

Physical Description:

575 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Instar Books, [2015.]

Summary:

Behind the fluorescent veil of modern big-business video games, a quiet revolution is happening, and it's centered on a tool called Twine. Taken up by nontraditional game authors to describe distinctly nontraditional subjects-from struggles with depression, explorations of queer identity, and analyses of the world of modern sex and dating to visions of breeding crustacean horses in a dystopian future-the Twine movement to date has created space for those who have previously been voiceless within games culture to tell their own stories, as well as to invent new visions outside of traditional channels of commerce. Videogames for Humans, curated and introduced by Twine author and games theorist Merritt Kopas, puts Twine authors, literary writers, and games critics into conversation with one another's work, reacting to, elaborating on, and being affected by the same. The result is an unprecedented kind of book about video games, one that will jump-start the discussions that will define the games culture of tomorrow.

Contents:

Rat Chaos

Fuck That Guy

Anhedonia

SABBAT

Horse Master

Nineteen

scarfmemory

Removed

for political lovers, a little utopia sketch

Your Lover Has Turned into a Flock of Birds

Detritus

There Ought to Be a Word

Negotiation

reProgram

Mangia

Sacrilege

And the Robot Horse You Rode In On

Electro Primitive Girl

The Message

Depression Quest

Even Cowgirls Bleed

3x3x3

Eden

Eft to Newt

Dining Table

I'm Fine

Player 2

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780990452843

0990452840

OCLC:

908846774