Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game (Approaches to Digital Game Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1441195181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This is a volume of papers by serious game scholars who can both attend to the detail and nuances of specific games as well as offer theoretical engaged and suggestive analysis.-- Bart Simon, Associate Professor, Director, Centre of Technoculture, Art and Games, Concordia University, Montreal. This anthology is an excellent guide, presenting a range of inspiring new approaches for anyone interested in role-playing games.--Jesper Juul, Visiting Assistant Arts Professor, New York University Game Center, author of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional WorldsDungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is an exceptionally coherent and well-integrated collection. The papers in t
. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Grandview University. Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University. Katie Whitlock, Ph.D. Joshua Call, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Nido R. is an Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at the California State University, Chico
"Four Stars" according to Alladi Venkatesh. Very good
Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching scope and implications of digital role-playing games as both cultural and academic artifacts. Working from a broad range of disciplines such as ecocritism, rhetoric, performance, gender, and communication, these essays yield insights that enrich the field of game studies and further illuminate the cultural, psychological and philosophical implications of a society that increasingly produces,