What is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition (Game Studies)

Klevjer, Rune

ISBN 10: 3837645797 / ISBN 13: 9783837645798

Editore: transcript publishing, 2022

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• Titolo: What is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition (Game Studies)
• Editore: transcript publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3837645797
• ISBN 13: 9783837645798
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.

Informazioni sull?autore

Rune Klevjer is an associate professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. He specializes in computer game theory, with particular interest in player-avatar relationships, narrative, and the nature of fictional representation in virtual environments.