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Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures

By Nick Webber

Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures

By Nick Webber

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This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary collection drawing on disciplines from literary and cultural studies through to evolutionary psychology, this book critically investigates many developments in video game cultures, technologies, practices, texts, paratexts, and genres. Through examining ideas such as narrative and time, gender and sexuality, ethics and affect, and technology and spaces, our authors aim to expand our shared understanding of video games, and the cultures and communities which surround them.
The work presented here reflects authors at different points in their academic careers, and will appeal to a variety of readers, from those wanting to find out more about academic writing on video games, through to those with a focused scholarly interest in particular fields of enquiry. With sections addressing Queer Game Studies, Historical Game Studies, and Game Design Perspectives, alongside ideas of solidarity and kindness in video games, the collection speaks to numerous subfields within games research. The chapters within offer conclusions and recommendations for academics and other educators, for established and aspiring game designers, and for anyone interested in how games can be understood as meaningful contributors to our cultural lives.Contents
Introduction: Exploring Cultural Horizons Old and NewNick Webber, Ewan Kirkland, René Schallegger and Felix Schniz
Section I: Solidarity and Kindness in Video Games
Of Dead Heroes and Growing Networks: Crisis, Agency, and Solidarity in Canadian Video GamesRené Schallegger
Cultivating kindness in the tiny MORPG Book of TravelsTan Schütz
Section II: Queer Game Studies
Video Games as Safe Spaces: A Walking PerspectiveKseniia Harshina and Tom Tucek
The Performance of Queer Identities in the Gameplay of Final Fantasy VII (1997) and Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)Laura Arnott
Queering the Walking Simulator - The Legacy of Gone HomeNicole Kilzer
Section III: Historical Game Studies
Playing Resistance without Restrictions: Nazi Germany in Through the Darkest of TimesLydia Kleinstück
Playing Time Capsules: Layered Temporalities in Gone Home and Return of the Obra DinnKristina Jevtic
'Watch for fairies, fen-folk, and fiends'. An Authentic and Didactic Approach to Historical Xenophobia in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla's Multi-Cultural World of the Ninth CenturyTamara Urach
Section IV: Game Design Perspectives
Simple and Choice Response Times of Females and Males Rating the Wilhelm Scream: An Important Null Result for Gaming Sound EngineersHermann Prossinger, Jakub Binter, Daniel ¿íha, Tomáš Hladký and Silvia Boschetti
Embodied game play: Exploring human and non-human experiences through affective game design in What Remains of Edith Finch and Brothers - A Tale of Two SonsChristina Obmann
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Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
178
Release Date:
2025-11-06
Publication Date:
2025-11-17
Publisher:
Sidestone Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
946426389X
ISBN13:
9789464263893
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
727 g
Height:
187 cm
Width:
263 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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