Player and Avatar (eBook)

The Affective Potential of Videogames

Owen David Owen (Autor)

Kapell Matthew Wilhelm Kapell (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
240 Seiten
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4766-2942-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider? Do you say "e;Ouch!"e; when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture? Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like actors in front of a camera, gamers' proprioception, or body awareness, can extend to onscreen characters, thus placing them "e;physically"e; within the virtual world. Players may even identify with characters' ideological motivations. The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of videogames--affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the player's virtual surrogate: the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling that suggests fulfillment of Atonin Artaud's vision of the "e;body without organs."e;

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Computerspiele
• ISBN-10: 1-4766-2942-0 / 1476629420
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-2942-1 / 9781476629421