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Digital zombies, undead stories : narrative emergence and videogames / Lawrence May.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
May, Lawrence, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Zombies in video games.
Video games--Social aspects.
Video games.
Narration in video games.
Narration (Rhetoric).
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First edition.
Distribution:
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Summary:
"Analyses the zombie video game genre in order to develop a framework for understanding emergent narratives in multiplayer video games, a phenomenon that sees elements of game design and player actions combine to create organic, unpredictable, and highly variable stories"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Stories of the undead
Rules of emergence (and the emergence of rules)
Familiar storytelling and popular memories
Making, breaking and bending rules at the textual margins
Unstable media, infectious stories and migratory rules
Delayed apocalypse, deliberate design.
Notes:
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Auckland, 2017, titled Exquisite corpses : narrative emergence in multiplayer zombie video games.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781501363511
1501363514
9781501363535
1501363530
9781501363528
1501363522
OCLC:
1238133581

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