Understanding Counterplay in Video Games

ISBN-13: 9781138548695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str.

Alan F. Meades

Opis

This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames—antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay.

Spis treści

1. Oppositional Play and the Discourses of Legitimacy  2. Watching from Beyond – The Challenges of Studying Oppositional User Generated Content  3. Griefing – Dominating and Controlling other Players  4. Glitching – (Bending) Finding, Sharing and Using Videogame Exploits  5. Hacking – The Production of Modified Consoles  6. Modding and System Hacking - The Utilisation of Modified Consoles  7. Contextualising Oppositional Play

O autorze

Alan F.Meades is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK