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