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The dark side of game play : controversial issues in playful environments / edited by Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jonas Linderoth, and Ashley ML Brown.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge advances in game studies ; 4Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2015Description: vi, 272 pages 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138827288
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 794.801/9 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1469.34.P79
Other classification:
  • Rdcb
Contents:
Dark play : the aesthetics of controversial playfulness / Torill Elvira Mortensen and Jonas Linderoth -- Analyzing game controversies : a historical approach to moral panics and digital games / Faltin Karlsen -- Of heroes and henchmen : the conventions of killing generic expendables in digital games / René Glas -- Don't forget to die : a software update is available for the death drive / Emily Flynn-Jones -- Killing digital children : design, discourse and player agency / Björn Sjöblom -- Little evils : subversive uses of children's games / Frans Mäyrä -- Darkly playing others / Miguel Sicart -- Three defences for the fourteen-inch barbed penis : darkly playing with morals, ethics, and sexual violence / Ashley ML Brown -- Exploring the limits of play : a case study of representations of nazism in games / Adam Chapman and Jonas Linderoth -- Keeping the balance : morals at the dark side / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Fabricated innocence : on how people can be lured into feel-bad games / Staffan Björk -- Massively multiplayer dark play : treacherous play in EVE online / Marcus Carter -- Dark play in Dishonored / Kristine Jørgensen -- Sonic descents : musical dark play in survival and psychological horror / Isabella van Elferen -- Boosting, glitching and modding Call of Duty : assertive dark-play manifestations, communities, pleasures, and organic resilience / Alan Meades.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dark play : the aesthetics of controversial playfulness / Torill Elvira Mortensen and Jonas Linderoth -- Analyzing game controversies : a historical approach to moral panics and digital games / Faltin Karlsen -- Of heroes and henchmen : the conventions of killing generic expendables in digital games / René Glas -- Don't forget to die : a software update is available for the death drive / Emily Flynn-Jones -- Killing digital children : design, discourse and player agency / Björn Sjöblom -- Little evils : subversive uses of children's games / Frans Mäyrä -- Darkly playing others / Miguel Sicart -- Three defences for the fourteen-inch barbed penis : darkly playing with morals, ethics, and sexual violence / Ashley ML Brown -- Exploring the limits of play : a case study of representations of nazism in games / Adam Chapman and Jonas Linderoth -- Keeping the balance : morals at the dark side / Torill Elvira Mortensen -- Fabricated innocence : on how people can be lured into feel-bad games / Staffan Björk -- Massively multiplayer dark play : treacherous play in EVE online / Marcus Carter -- Dark play in Dishonored / Kristine Jørgensen -- Sonic descents : musical dark play in survival and psychological horror / Isabella van Elferen -- Boosting, glitching and modding Call of Duty : assertive dark-play manifestations, communities, pleasures, and organic resilience / Alan Meades.

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