This essay develops a method for the analysis of video game characters based on a
theoretical understanding of their medium-specific representation and the mental processes …

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 …

For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent
the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent …

This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has
emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting digital journalism into full …

This chapter discusses the applicability of the concept of 'paratext'(as coined by Gérard
Genette) to audio-visual media in general and to video games in particular. In the first …

Game spaces are central to player experience. This has long been understood among video
game designers and developers. It has even been explored in relation to the transformation …

This book investigates the narrativity of some of the most popular survival horror video
games and the gender politics implicit in their storyworlds. In a thorough analysis of the …

Drawing on game theory and interviews that were personally conducted with pinball
pioneers—from CEOs of independent and corporate pinball companies to notable designers …

An in-depth exploration of a neglected video game platform of the 1990s and a reflection on
the way we construct the cultural history of video games. In The Media Snatcher, Carl …

Abstract Drawing on Janet Murray (1997), Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (2004), and
other previous proposals, this article conceptualizes player agency as the possibility space …