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Much of the video game industry focuses on questions of control and ways to improve play to make the gamer feel more connected to the virtual world. The sixteen essays in this collection offer critical examinations of the issue of control in video games, including different ways to theorize and define control within video gaming and how control impacts game design and game play.
Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming. By Matthew Wysocki Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming By Matthew Wysocki The word “control” has many implications for video games. On a basic level, without player control, there is no experience. Much of the video game industry focuses on questions of control and ways to.
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Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming by Matthew Wysocki 4 ratings, 4.25 average rating, 0 reviews Ctrl-Alt-Play Quotes Showing 1-1 of 1 “Obviously on a basic level, unlike other media, if a player does not control the game, there is no experience.”.
Published in: 'Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video Gaming' (Matthew Wysocki, 2012). Focussing on Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption, and L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s three most recent titles at the time of writing, this chapter seeks to highlight those moments where, partly as a consequence of the developer’s narrative ambition, the balance of control between the gamer and the game.
Gerald Voorhees is an Assistant Professor in the Department Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. His research is on games and new media as sites for the construction and contestation of identity and culture, and he has edited books on masculinities in games, feminism in play, role-playing games, and first-person shooter games.
Would You Kindly? BioShock and the Question of Control. With Matthew Sandler. In CTRL-ALT-PLAY: Essays on Control in Video Games, McFarland Publishing, February 2013. Preface to CTRL-ALT-PLAY: Essays on Control in Video Games, McFarland Publishing, February 2013. Alternative to What? Alternative Pornography, Suicide Girls and Re-appropriation.
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Ctrl-Alt-Play: Essays on Control in Video. Mosaic 43.4 (2010): 157-173. Biography: Peter McDonald works on the hermeneutics and aesthetics of playfulness across the latter half of the 20th century, ranging from the avant-garde art games of Fluxus and Happenings, to mass market video games. Peter brings interdisciplinary theories of play, especially those of postmodern literary criticism, to.
Watching People Is Not a Game: Interactive Online Corporeality, Twitch.tv and Videogame Streams by Sky LaRell Anderson Abstract Recent videogames research has followed a trend of studying the human element of gaming, meaning the people, bodies and physical contexts of gaming.
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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire is the second video game in Sierra On-Line 's Quest for Glory series, and the sequel to Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero. The game's interface is a text parser, which requires the player to input commands from a set (but unknown) list to have the character perform actions.
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