Metagames

ISBN-13: 9781032615561 / Twarda / 2024 / 208 str.

Agata Waszkiewicz

Opis

Metagames: Games About Games scrutinizes how various meta devices, such as breaking the fourth wall and unreliable narrator, change and adapt when translated into the uniquely interactive medium of digital games.

 

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Fourth-Wall Breaking and the Twofold Play

2. Hypermediation and the Hypervisibile Interface

3. Unreliable Narrator and the Playable Exaggeration

4. Abusive Game Design and Masocore Games

5. Fragmentation and Mini-Games

6. Parody and the Edges of Metagames

Conclusions

 

O autorze

Agata Waszkiewicz, Ph.D., is a game scholar whose interests include metafictional and experimental video games, the representation of non-normative identities in digital games, and the intersections between food and game studies. They are an author of Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games (DeGruyter, 2022). As of 2022, they hold the position of a Secretary of DiGRA Central Eastern Europe chapter.