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Adventure games : playing the outsider
- Title
- Adventure games : playing the outsider / Aaron A. Reed, John Murray, and Anastasia Salter.
- Author
- Reed, Aaron (Aaron A.)
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- vii, 230 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Drawing upon methods from platform studies, software studies, media studies, and literary studies, Adventure Games reveals the genre's ludic (playful) and narrative origins and patterns, where character (and the player's embodiment of a character) is essential to the experience of play and the choices within a game"--
- Series Statement
- Approaches to digital game studies ; volume 7
- Uniform Title
- Approaches to digital game studies ; v. 7.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Outsider characters, outlier players -- Defining adventure games from the ground up -- Cinematic choice games -- Fragments of adventure -- Gone home? Walking simulators and the importance of slow gaming -- Breaking boundaries in visual novels -- Rick and Morty on the holodeck -- Futures of adventure : Kentucky Route Zero and machines for getting lost on purpose.
- ISBN
- 9781501346545
- 1501346547
- 9781501346552 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501346569 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019035757
- OCLC
- on1078424058
- SCSB-9661223
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library