Intro; Contents; On Thinking Playfully; Preface; Who Is Playing Not-Real Games?; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Welcome to the Discourse of the Real: Constituting the Boundaries of Games and Player; Real Game Studies?; Constitutive Rhetoric and the Creation of the Real; Prototyp…
"Real Games is an exploration of how the discourses surrounding videogames shapes what games get made and played as well as who is invited to play them. By making appeals to 'real games,' players and developers center certain kinds of experiences and marginalize others. The auth…
"Real Games is an exploration of how the discourses surrounding videogames shapes what games get made and played as well as who is invited to play them. By making appeals to 'real games,' players and developers center certain kinds of experiences and marginalize others. The auth…
How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.
"Real Games is an exploration of how the discourses surrounding videogames shapes what games get made and played as well as who is invited to play them. By making appeals to 'real games,' players and developers center certain kinds of experiences and marginalize others. The auth…