Representing Conflicts in Games: Antagonism, Rivalry, and Competition

ISBN-13: 9781032285597 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str.

Sjöblom, Björn

Opis

This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in a variety of game genres and systems, highlighting the intrinsic connection between games and conflict through a set of theoretical and empirical studies.

Spis treści

List of Contributors;  Acknowledgements;  The Inevitable Relation Between Games and Conflict: An Introduction;  Part I: Game Systems, Transformation, and Learning;  1. Red in Bits and Bytes: Evolutionary Conflicts in Biological God Games;  2. On Bikers at War: Transformations of Non-Fictional and Fictional Conflicts from Hamlet to Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem;  3. From Zero-Sum Business Games to Coopetitive Simulation;  4. The Limits of ‘Serious’ Play: Frame Disputes Around Educational Games;  Part II: Representing War and Armed Conflicts;  5. On Wargames and War: Modelling Carl von Clausewitz’s Theory of War;  6. Wargames as Reenactment: An Ecological Framework for the Development of Military Games for Education;  7. The Grasping Eye: Wargames and the Ideal-Typical Field Commander’s Inner Vision;  Part III: Critical Perspectives on Conflicts in Games;  8. War Never Changes? Creating an American Victimology in Fallout 4;  9. Are the Bullets Going Over our Head? Designed Ambivalence in the Representation of Armed Conflict in Games;  10. Where are the White Perpetrators in all the Colonial Board Games? A Case Study on Afrikan Tähti;  Part IV: Alternative Ways of Representing Conflicts in Games;  11. Narrative and Mechanical Integration: Playing with Interpersonal Conflicts in Life is Strange;  12. The Most Intimate Conflict of all: Marriage as Conflict in Digital Games;  13. All Smoke, No Fire: The Post-Mortem of Conflicts in the ‘Walking Simulator’ Genre;  Index