Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game (Approaches to Digital Game Studies: Vol. 1)

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Synopsis
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching scope and implications of digital role-playing games as both cultural and academic artifacts. As a genre, digital role playing games have undergone constant and radical revision, pushing not only multiple boundaries of game development, but also the playing strategies and experiences of players. Divided into three distinct sections, this premiere volume captures the distinctiveness of different game types, the forms of play they engender and their social and cultural implications. Contributors examine a range of games, from classics like Final Fantasy to blockbusters like World of Warcraft to obscure genre bending titles like Lux Pain. Working from a broad range of disciplines such as ecocritism, rhetoric, performance, gender, and communication, these essays yield insights that enrich the field of game studies and further illuminate the cultural, psychological and philosophical implications of a society that increasingly produces, plays and discourses about role playing games.
Copyright:
2012

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
392 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781441138927
Related ISBNs:
9781441191892
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Gerald A. Voorhees, Joshua Call, Katie Whitlock
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Katie Whitlock
Edited by:
Joshua Call
Edited by:
Gerald A. Voorhees

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