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What Is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition
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Series: Game Studies
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ISBN10: 3837645797
ISBN13: 9783837645798
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: Oct 27 2022
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783837645798
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: Oct 27 2022
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.
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