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Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method

Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method

Droumeva, Milena

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Series: Electronic Communities of Making

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral SociologyArt & Popular Culture

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ISBN10: 1943208816
ISBN13: 9781943208814
Publisher: Amherst College
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experiential media of video games into text for close reading. By shifting focus toward the immersiveness of video games, Playthrough Poetics makes the case for gameplay as a necessary, alternate method. Contributors to this volume engage widely with the activity of play through autoethnographies, meta-analyses of self-broadcasting, new procedural methods like gamespace soundwalking, as well as the affective aspects of games research. In doing so, they model new possibilities for academic players and gamers alike.

Rigorous scholarship meets cultural practice in this innovative, multi-modal edited collection that includes video essays and offers transcripts of the playthroughs themselves. Readers (and viewers) will come away with a toolkit of models, case studies, and conceptual frameworks for analyzing video games through gameplay. This volume is a fresh return to the joy of play: the poetics of games as contemporary forms of storytelling and interactivity.

With contributions from Ashlee Bird, Brandon Blackburn, Milena Droumeva, Kishonna Gray, Robyn Hope, Ben Scholl, Maria Sommers, Ashlyn Sparrow, Christine Tran, and Aaron Trammell.

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