Playing Utopia
eBook - PDF

Playing Utopia

Futures in Digital Games

  1. 333 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Playing Utopia

Futures in Digital Games

About this book

Media narratives inform our ideas of the future – and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why?

This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.

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Information

Publisher
transcript Verlag
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9783837650501
eBook ISBN
9783839450505
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Film & Video
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Preface and Acknowledgements
  4. Utopian Futures. A Brief History of Their Conception and Representation in Modern Media—From Literature to Digital Games
  5. Utopias in Digital Games
  6. Utopias of Digital Games
  7. Contributors

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Yes, you can access Playing Utopia by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt, Benjamin Beil,Gundolf S. Freyermuth,Hanns Christian Schmidt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Film & Video. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.