Barry Atkins

More Than a Game

The Computer Game as Fictional Form. UK edition. Sprachen: Englisch. 20,0 cm / 12,6 cm / 1,4 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 176 Seiten
EAN 9780719063657
Veröffentlicht Mai 2003
Verlag/Hersteller Manchester University Press

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The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible, readable manner. Contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: 'Tomb Raider', 'Half-Life', 'Close Combat' and 'Sim City'. Recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.

Portrait

Barry Atkins is Lecturer in English and Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The computer game as fictional form i) The postmodern temptation ii) Reading game-fictions 2. Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider i) Lara Crost: Action hero ii) Tomb Raider as quest narrative iii) Beating the system 3. Gritty realism: reading Half-Life i) Welcome to Black Mesa ii) I am a camera 4. Replaying history: reading Close Combat i) History in real-time ii) Counterfactual gameplay 5. Managing the real: reading SimCity i) The many worlds of SimCity ii) SimCity limits 6. More than a game? i) Realism is dead, long live realism ii) The shape of things to come iii) The computer game as fictional form revisited Glossary of specific game terms Bibliography

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