Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutchinson, Rachel.

Series:

Handbooks on Japanese Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2025.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Handbook of Japanese Games and Gameplay".

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Note on Japanese names and sources

Abbreviations

Introduction

Rachael Hutchinson

Part 1: Analog and mechanical games

1 The Virtuality of Japanese Playing Cards: Immersion and Transgression in Early Modern Material Culture

Drisana Misra

2 Eating Your Way through Sugoroku: Imaginary Travel in a Japanese Board Game

Bianca Chui

3 Three Studies for a Material History of Japanese Board Games

Nathan Altice

4 Participatory Storytelling as a Media Platform: TRPGs, Gamebooks, Readers' Columns, and Play-by-Mail in Japanese Analog RPGs

Satomi Saito

5 On the Play of Yakumono: The Evolution of Audiovisual Effects in Pachinko

Keiji Amano and Geoffrey Rockwell

Part 2: Gameplay spaces

6 Embodied Play in Japan: From Escape Rooms to Larp (Live-Action Role-Play)

Björn-Ole Kamm

7 Cabinets in the City: Game Centers, Street Gamers and Urbanity through Virtua Fighter

Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon

8 Why Has Japan's Esports Development Been So Slow?

Akira Igarashi and Yuhsuke Koyama

9 Convergence and Cosmopolitanism in Online Games: Non-Japanese Players on Japanese Final Fantasy XIV Servers

Mattias van Ommen

10 Playing with Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the Japanese, Korean and Chinese YouTube Space

Martin Roth

Part 3: Game analysis

11 Salarymen, Samurai, and the State: Masculinity at Play in Feudal Era War Games

Keita Moore

12 Othering Masculinity: Disability and Chivalry in the Yakuza Series

Frank Mondelli and Rachael Hutchinson

13 The Flavor of Late Shōwa: Coziness, Food, and Nostalgia in Gagex Games

Víctor Navarro-Remesal and Beatriz Pérez Zapata

14 The Destruction of Raccoon City (again): Japanese Collective Memory Discourse, the Atomic Bombs, and Resident Evil 3

Ryan Scheiding

Part 4: Game industry.

15 The Dawn of Videogames in Japan as Viewed from the Toy Industry

Hitomi Mohri

16 Ladies, Leave, and Corporate Liability? Personnel Policies in the Japanese Game Industry

Tsugumi (Mimi) Okabe

17 Restructuring and Redeveloping Final Fantasy: Square Enix's Strategic Survival in a Tumultuous Industrial Landscape, 2000-2020

K. T. Wong

18 The Gundam Games Ecology in a Media Industry Perspective

Susana Tosca and Akinori Nakamura

Part 5: Game mediations

19 Music on the Edge (Connector): Demixing the Sound of the NES and Famicom

James Newman

20 Changing the Game to Keep it the Same: The Paradox of Localization

Amy Dawson-Andoh

21 Playing at Romance: Otome Games and Fan Cultures

Sarah Christina Ganzon

Index.

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ISBN:

90-485-7243-6

1-003-69710-0

1-04-078862-9

90-485-7242-8

9781003697107

OCLC:

1521274439

Publisher Number:

CIPO000311694