An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors explore the theory, design, and player practices surrounding video game reward systems, arguing for the importance of understanding trophies and achievements as a central aspect of video game design and play.
As PlayStation Trophies, Xbox Achievements, and other similar built-in reward systems have become widespread in the video game landscape, this volume asks critical questions about how these systems affect the games we play and the communities that surround them.
Through analyses of a range of video games, from well-known franchises like Call of Duty to overlooked sleeper hits like Nier Automata and even niche otome titles like Hakuoki, contributors approach these award systems from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to theorize their incorporation into the contemporary game market, the role they play as a component of game design, and the innovative ways that players choose to (or not to) pursue them.
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Trophy Cases
The Theory, Design, and Cultural Politics of Video Game Trophies and Achievements
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Trophy Cases
The Theory, Design, and Cultural Politics of Video Game Trophies and Achievements
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Welcome to Trophy Cases
- 1 Achievement Unlocked: A History of Video Game Achievements, Badges, and Trophies
- 2 Trophy Typologies: What PlayStation Trophies Tell Us About Contemporary Video Games
- 3 Explore, Experiment, Explain: Categorizing Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam Achievements Description Text from 2006 to 2024
- 4 Gilded Time: Trophies, Exploits, and Gaming Capital in Call of Duty’s Publics
- 5 Learning to Listen: Trophies as Experience and Memory in Season: A Letter to the Future
- 6 Designing Player-Conscious Achievements
- 7 Winning Hearts and Minds: Unlocking the Ethics of Trophies in Multiplayer Games
- 8 Fool’s Platinum: A Typology of Terrible Trophies
- 9 Gaming versus Role-Playing: How Trophies Impact the Aesthetic Experience of Videogames
- 10 Redefining Achievements: A Study on the Creation of Custom Tile Rewards in Early Screenshot Let’s Plays
- 11 Understanding Player Types Through Trophy Hunting: A Case Study in Friendship Ethnography
- 12 Rewarding Sexy Normal and Bad Ends: Trophies and Failure in Hakuoki and Collar x Malice
- Index
- Notes on Contributors
- Copyright Page
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