How to Queer the World : Radical Worldbuilding Through Video Games.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruberg, Bo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in video games.

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"This book argues for a radical reimagining of the concept of worldbuilding, using video games to illustrate how worlds are built on underlying systems and how the world around us can be rebuilt in queer ways that support the lives of LGBTQIA+ people"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking (Queer) Worldbuilding through Video Games

Nine Thousand Little Worlds: Worldbuilding and Queer Worldmaking through Design in What the Golf

Inverting the Laws of the Universe: Trans Time Mechanics and Queer Astrophysics in If Found...

Queer Bodies in Motion: Game Physics as Worldbuilding Software in Goat Simulator and Wobbledogs

Building Worlds through Graphical Depth: The Queer Dimensionality of 2.5D in OlliOlli World

Straight Paths through Queer Video Games: Over-Building the World in Gone Home

Unplayable Worlds: Queer Posthumanism and the End of Agency in San Andreas Deer Cam

Conclusion: How to Queer the World.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781479832057

1479832057

OCLC:

1511110597