Infrastructure in Video Games

Daniel Punday is Professor of English at Mississippi State University, USA. He is the author of six books, including Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory, Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction and Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Infrastructure Studies.- Chapter 2: Inform, Game Rules, World State, and Interfaces.- Chapter 3: Levers and Watchtowers.- Chapter 4: Avatars and Governmentality.- Chapter 5: Maintenance and Scarcity.- Chapter 6: Interfaces and Fictional Worlds.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Occasion of New Infrastructure.