Toward a gameic world : new rules of engagement from Japanese video games / Ben Whaley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whaley, Ben, author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; No. 100.

Michigan monograph series in Japanese Studies, 8473-3223 ; Number 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Video games--Japan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 170 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

New rules of engagement from Japanese video games

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

Toward a Gameic World bridges the gap between Japanese popular culture studies and game studies by encouraging a dialogue centered around Japanese-designed video games and social issues. It examines four contemporary Japanese video games in terms of how they engage with some of Japan's biggest social and personal issues, including traumas: natural disasters (Disaster Report), a declining birthrate and aging population (Catherine), nuclear proliferation (Metal Gear Solid V); and youth social withdrawal (The World Ends with You). This book asks what some of the positive benefits are of working through a site of trauma from within a video game, and how games might teach us about Japanese culture and society through new kinds of interactive narratives, different from literature and film. The book proposes four new strategies of engagement with video games to explore the productive tensions that emerge at the boundaries of virtual reality, augmented reality, and gamification in contemporary Japan.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on October 20, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-157) and index.

ISBN:

9780472221103

0472221108

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.