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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Playing, Making, Thinking Games
• Playing
• -Games
• Making Games
• -Game Design
• Thinking Games
• -Game Studies
• Acknowledgments
• I. Games
• Introduction
• 1. What is a Game? Systematic and Historical Approaches
• Attempts at Systematic Definitions
• Failure of Systematic Definitions
• Historical Definition: The Alterity of Digital Games
• 2. Games in the Modern Era. A Short Media History
• Games
• Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Mediality
• Case Study: Soccer
• -A Game's Journey Through Medialities
• Quaternary Mediality: From Spectator to Player

• 3. Procedural Turn (since the 1950s)
• Quadruplicate Origin of Digital Games
• Digital Technology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Flight Simulation
• Virtualization of Analog Games
• Playful Use of Digital Technology
• Procedurality
• 4. Hyperepic Turn (since the 1970s)
• Game Economics
• From Mainframe and Arcade Games to Console and PC Games
• Innovative Genre of Text-Adventures
• Evolution of Audiovisual Storytelling
• Hyperepic
• 5. Hyperrealistic Turn (since the 1990s)
• Digital Technology
• From the Model of the Novel to the Model of the Film
• Hyperrealism
• Authenticity and Operativity
• Innovative Genre of the First-Person Shooter
• 6. Double Alterity of Digital Games
• Evolution of Games into an Audiovisual Medium
• Digital Games vs. Analog Games and Linear Audiovisions
• Defining Medium of Digital Culture
• 7. Look Ahead: Hyperimmersive Turn?
• Evolution of Digital Games
• Lifelike Agency in Games
• Utopia Holodeck
• Gamelike Agency in Real Life
• Potential for Hyperimmersive Turn
• Intermezzo: Game // Film
• Introduction
• 1. Game and Film
• Competition
• Collaboration
• Convergence
• 2. Audiovisual Rivalries
• Media History
• Media Theory
• 3. Modes of Audiovisual Storytelling
• Storytelling in Space and Time
• Pre-Industrial Audiovisions: Theater
• Industrial Audiovisions: Film and Television
• Digital Audiovisions: Games
• Complementarity
• Summary: The Four Cs
• II. Game Design
• Introduction
• 1. Analog Design
• Evolution of Industrial Design Practices
• Evolution of Industrial Design Thinking
• 2. Digital Design
• Digitalization of Design Practice
• Digitalization of Design Thinking
• 3. Short History of Game Design
• First 40 Years
• Present and Future
• 4. Areas of Game Design
• Role of the Game Designer
• Triad, Tetrad, and the Function of Narration
• 5. Practices of Game Design
• Process of Game Development
• Principle of Worldbuilding
• Authorship in Game Design
• Don't Follow These Rules! A Primer for Playtesting by Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman
• III. Game Studies
• Introduction
• 1. Theories of Analog Games vs. Theories of Digital Games
• Pre-Industrial Theories of Playing and Games
• Industrial Theories of Playing and Games
• 2. Schisms of Game Studies
• Sedimentative Approaches: Game Design Theories
• Exaptative Approaches 1: Theories from Social Sciences
• Exaptative Approaches 2: Theories from the Humanities
• 3. Desideratum: Overcoming the Schisms
• Longing for Synthesis
• Adaptative Approaches
• 4. Perspectives of Research 1: Digital Games
• Mechanics
• Story
• Aesthetics
• Technology
• Transmedia
• 5. Perspectives of Research 2: Serious Games
• Mechanics, Story, Aesthetics, Technology, Transmedia
• Gamification
• Opposition to Industrialism
• Epilog
• Academization and Aesthetic Production
• Cultural Rise of Games
• Game Studies and Digital Game Design Education in Germany
• International Higher Game Design Education: Six Examples from Five Countries by Andre Czauderna
• Structure of an Undergraduate Program for Game Design
• Consequences of Academization.

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Author/Creator:

Freyermuth, Gundolf S., 1955- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Games, game design, game studies: an introduction [by Freyermuth, G.S.]

Related Series:

Media studies (Transcript (Firm))

Subjects:

Video games

Digital media

Computer games

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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1 online resource.

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text file

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GV1469.15 .F74 2015

ISBNs:

9783839429839 (electronic bk.)
3839429838 (electronic bk.)
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International Article Number: 9783837629835

OCLC Numbers:

936117897

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