Digital Zombies, Undead Stories

Narrative Emergence and Videogames

AvLawrence May

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Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Through analysis of three case study videogames – Left 4 Dead 2, DayZ and Minecraft – and their online player communities, Digital Zombies, Undead Stories develops a framework for understanding how collective gameplay generates experiences of narrative, as well as the narrative dimensions of players' creative activity on social media platforms. Narrative emergence is addressed as a powerful form of player experience in multiplayer games, one which makes individual games' boundaries and meanings fluid and negotiable by players. The phenomenon is also shown to be recursive in nature, shaping individual and collective understandings of videogame texts over time.Digital Zombies, Undead Stories focuses on games featuring zombies as central antagonists. The recurrent figure of the videogame zombie, which mediates between chaos and rule-driven predictability, serves as both metaphor and mascot for narrative emergence. This book argues that in the zombie genre, emergent experiences are at the heart of narrative experiences for players, and more broadly demonstrates the potential for the phenomenon to be understood as a fundamental part of everyday play experiences across genres.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-14
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501363535
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Optimering inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Datorspelsdesign inom Data och IT

Mer om författaren

Lawrence May is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Stories of the UndeadChapter 3: Rules of Emergence (and the Emergence of Rules)Chapter 4: Familiar Storytelling and Popular MemoriesChapter 5: Making, Breaking and Bending Rules at the Textual MarginsChapter 6: Unstable Media, Infectious Stories and Migratory RulesChapter 7: Delayed Apocalypse, Deliberate DesignChapter 8: ConclusionAppendix ABibliographyIndex

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