Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames

Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames (Studies in Gaming)

ï»¿ Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider? Do you say â€œOuch!â€ when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture?
Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like actors in front of a camera, gamersâ€™ proprioception, or body awareness, can extend to onscreen characters, thus placing them â€œphysicallyâ€ within the virtual world. Players may even identify with charactersâ€™ ideological motivations.
The author explores concepts central to the design and enjoyment of videogamesâ€”affect, immersion, liveness, presence, agency, narrative, ideology and the playerâ€™s virtual surrogate: the avatar. Gamer and avatar are analyzed as a cybernetic coupling that suggests fulfillment of Atonin Artaudâ€™s vision of the â€œbody without organs.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer McFarland
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-06-19
Format Kindle eBook

Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames (Studies in Gaming)