The player's power to change the game : ludic mutation / Anne-Marie Schleiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schleiner, Anne-Marie, 1970- author.

Series:

MediaMatters.

MediaMatters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogramed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.

Contents:

Lightness of digital doll play

Game modding: cross-over mutation and unwelcome gifts

Activist game rhetoric: clockwork worlds, broken toys, and harrowing missions

City as military playground: contested urban terrain

Toys of Biopolis

A tactical sketchbook for ludic mutation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-04-077917-4

1-003-70727-0

1-04-079469-6

90-485-6127-2

90-485-2564-0

9781003707271

OCLC:

1037946810