Dungeons, dragons, and digital denizens : the digital role-playing game /: the digital role-playing game. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Gerald Voorhees, Josh Call, and Katie Whitlock.
• Editors: Voorhees, Gerald; Call, Josh; Whitlock, Katie
• Contents: Section 1: Game master -- 1. Eco-performance in the digital RPG gamescape / Adele H. Bealer -- 2. The pathways of time: temporality and procedures in MMORPGs / Joshua Abboud -- 3. Game and narrative in Dragon Age: Origins: playing the archive in digital RPGs / Alice Henton -- 4. When language goes bad: localization's effect on the gameplay of Japanese RPGs / Douglas Schules -- 5. The Lord of the Rings Online: issues in the adaptation of MMORPGs / Neil Randall, Kathleen Murphy -- Section 2: In character -- 6. Traumatic origins: memory, crisis, and identity in digital RPGs / Katie Whitlock -- 7. Risky business: neo-liberal rationality and the computer RPG / Andrew Baerg -- 8. Postcards from the other side: interactive revelation in post-apocalyptic RPGs / Zachary McDowell -- 9. Constructing a powerful identity in World of Warcraft: a sociolinguistic approach to MMORPGs / Benjamin E. Friedline, Lauren B. Collister -- 10. In the blood of Dragon Age: Origins: metaphor and identity in digital RPGs / Karen Zook -- 11. Epic style: re-compositional performance in the BioWare digital RPG / Roger Travis -- Section 3: Out-of-character -- 12. Neo-liberal multiculturalism in Mass Effect: the government of difference in digital RPGs / Gerald Voorhees -- 13. 'Simply fighting to preserve their way of life': multiculturalism in World of Warcraft / Christopher Douglas -- 14. From meaning to experience: teaching fiction writing with digital RPGs / Trent Hergenrader -- 15. Gaming the meta: metagame culture and player motivation in RPGs / Josh Call -- 16. The generalization of configurable being: from RPGs to Facebook / Chuk Moran.
• Publisher Details: New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 793.93; Fantasy games; Electronic games; Role playing; Games; GAMES -- Reference; GAMES -- Travel Games; Electronic games; Fantasy games; Games; Role playing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441141088; 1441141081; 9781628927900; 1628927909
• Related ISBNs: 9781441191892; 1441191895; 9781441195180; 1441195181
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 14, 2015).
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