Independent videogames : cultures, networks, techniques and politics /: cultures, networks, techniques and politics. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paolo Ruffino.
• Editors: Ruffino, Paolo
• Contents: Contents List of Figures List of Contributors 1. Introduction: After Independence Paolo Ruffino; Part I: Cultures 2. Decoding and Recoding Game Jams and Independent Game-making Spaces for Diversity and Inclusion Aphra Kerr 3. Queering Indie: How LGBTQ Experiences Challenge Dominant Narratives of Independent Games Bonnie Ruberg 4. Virtually Indie: On the Characteristics of Independent Game Development for Virtual Reality Headsets Paweł Grabarczyk Part II: Networks 5. Network or Die? What Social Networking Analysis Can Tell Us About Indie Game Development Pierson Browne and Jennifer Whitson 6. Strange Bedfellows: Indie Games and Academia Celia Pearce Part III: Techniques 7. The Conditions of Videogame Production: The Nature and Stakes of Creative Freedom in Stiegler’s Philosophy of Technicity Patrick Crogan 8. Boutique Indie: Annapurna Interactive and Contemporary Independent Game Development Felan Parker 9. Game Production Studies: Studio Studies Theory, Method and Practice Casey O’Donnell Part IV: Politics 10. Game Workers Unite: Unionization Among Independent Developers Jamie Woodcock 11. Playing with Risk: Political-Economy, Independent Games, and the Precarity of Development in Crowded Commercial Markets Nadav Lipkin Part V: Local Indie Game Studies 12. Playful Peripheries: The Consolidation of Independent Game Production in Latin America Orlando Guevara-Villalobos 13. The Melbourne Indie Game Scenes: Value Regimes in Localized Game Development Brendan Keogh 14. Modes of Independence in the Finnish Game Development Scene Olli Sotamaa 15. The Rebels Across the Street: IndiE3 and the Strategic Geography of Indie Game Promotion John Vanderhoef 16. Freedom from the Industry Standard: Student Working Imaginaries and Independence in Games Higher Education Alison Harvey 17. Afterword: The Cultural Conditions of Being Indie Bart Simon ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 338.477948; Video games industry; Video games -- Design; Video games -- Social aspects; Video games industry -- Case studies; Video games -- Design -- Case studies; Video games -- Social aspects -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000201154; 9781000200997; 9781000201079; 9780367336219
• Related ISBNs: 9780367336202
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