| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Routledge advances in game studies |
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Routledge advances in game studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How do paratextual materials reflect design intention with regards to what the player can and cannot do in a videogame? How does game design shape the possibility space for player action? Through these questions and selected case studies that include AAA and independent games alike, the book presents a unique approach to studying agency that combines game design, game studies, and game developer discourse. By doing so, the book examines what discourses around player action, as well as a game's design can reveal about the nature of agency and videogame aesthetics. This book will appeal to readers specifically interested in videogames, such as game studies scholars or game designers, but also to media studies students and media and screen studies scholars less familiar with digital games"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Dec 26th, 2022). |
| Biography |
Bettina Bódi is lecturer in media at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Dr Bódi's research considers agency in and around videogames, as afforded by game design, and as discussed in paratexts and promotional surrounds. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Agency (Philosophy) in video games.
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Video games -- Marketing.
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Video games -- Design.
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Video games -- Design.
(OCoLC)fst01166425
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Video games -- Marketing.
(OCoLC)fst01166435
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GAMES / Video & Electronic.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bódi, Bettina. Videogames and agency Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032285092 (DLC) 2022042697 |
| ISBN |
9781003298786 electronic book |
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1003298788 electronic book |
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9781000829860 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1000829863 (electronic book : PDF) |
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9781000829877 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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1000829871 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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9781032285092 hardcover |
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9781032288475 paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003298786 doi |
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