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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Series Introduction - Genre and Disciplinarity in the Study of Games Gerald Voorhees, Josh Call and Katie Whitlock Introduction - From Dungeons to Digital Denizens Josh Call, Katie Whitlock and Gerald Voorhees Section One - Game Master Eco-Performance in the Digital RPG Gamescape Adele H. Bealer The Pathways of Time: Temporality and Procedures in MMORPGs Joshua Abboud Game and Narrative in Dragon Age: Origins: Playing the Archive in Digital RPGs Alice Henton When Language Goes Bad: The Localization's Effect on the Gameplay of Japanese RPGs Douglas Schules The Lord of the Rings Online: Issues in the Adaptation of MMORPGs Neil Randall and Kathleen Murphy Section Two - In-Character Traumatic Origins: Memory, Crisis and Identity in Digital RPGs Katie Whitlock Risky Business: Neoliberal Rationality and the Computer RPG Andrew Baerg Postcards from the Other Side: Interactive Revelation in Post-Apocalyptic RPGs Zachary McDowell Constructing a Powerful Identity in World of Warcraft: A Sociolinguistic Approach to MMORPGs Benjamin E. Friedline and Lauren B. Collister In the Blood of Dragon Age: Origins: Metaphor and Identity in Digital RPGs Karen Zook Epic Style: Re-compositional Performance in the Bioware Digital RPG Roger Travis Section Three - Out-of-Character Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Mass Effect: The Government of Difference in Digital RPGs Gerald Voorhees 'Simply Fighting to Preserve Their Way of Life': Multiculturalism in World of Warcraft Christopher Douglas From Meaning to Experience: Teaching Fiction Writing with Digital RPGs Trent Hergenrader Gaming the Meta: Metagame Culture and Player Motivation in RPGs Josh Call The Generalization of Configurable Being: From RPGs to Facebook Chuk Moran About the Contributors

About the Author :
Joshua Call, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Grand View University. Katie Whitlock, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at California State University, Chico.

Review :
Dungeons, Dragons and Digital Denizens is as captivating as it sounds, a state of the art collection with provocative essays interrogating video games through close readings of game narrative, landscape, and digital structure. Space, time power, knowledge, language, and identity furnish rich interpretive accounts of an especially interesting array of games. --Bonnie Nardi, Professor in the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine The digital role-playing game is a strange hybrid: the conventions of pen and paper games translated to the computer; stories and games mixed in new ways. This anthology is an excellent guide, presenting a range of inspiring new approaches for anyone interested in role-playing games. --Jesper Juul, Visiting Assistant Arts Professor, New York University Game Center, author of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is an exceptionally coherent and well-integrated collection. This collection is theoretically rich and engaging while remaining focused on the nuance and detail of a wide variety of games. The volume is essential reading for advanced scholars and students in game studies seeking to develop literary and cultural theoretical models of digital gaming as a mode of authorship, expression and critique. The papers in this collection push the envelope on the analysis of digital role playing games and provide fertile ground for further debate and new case studies as the landscape of digital gaming continues to change. This is a volume of papers by serious game scholars who can both attend to the detail and nuances of specific games as well as offer theoretical engaged and suggestive analysis. -- Bart Simon, Associate Professor, Director, Centre of Technoculture, Art and Games, Concordia University, Montreal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781441138927
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Approaches to Digital Game Studies
  • ISBN-10: 1441138927
  • Publisher Date: 16 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 392
  • Sub Title: The Digital Role-Playing Game


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