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Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games

Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games

Hanson, Christopher

Paperback

Series: Digital Game Studies

Games & Activities GeneralFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0253032865
ISBN13: 9780253032867
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Apr 1 2018
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating. . . . Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time?

Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital games have presented a new model for understanding time in contemporary culture, a concept he calls game time. Multivalent in nature, game time is characterized by apparent malleability, navigability, and possibility while simultaneously being highly restrictive and requiring replay and repetition. Hanson demonstrates that compared to analog tabletop games, sports, film, television, and other forms of media, the temporal structures of digital games provide unique opportunities to engage players with liveness, causality, potentiality, and lived experience that create new ways of experiencing time.

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