Representing conflicts in games : antagonism, rivalry, and competition /: antagonism, rivalry, and competition. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bjórn Sjóblom, Jonas Linderoth, Anders Frank.
• Editors: Sjöblom, Björn; Linderoth, Jonas, 1970-; Frank, Anders
• Contents: List of Contributors ; Acknowledgements The Inevitable Relation Between Games and Conflict: An Introduction; Jonas Linderoth and Björn Sjöblom Part I: Game Systems, Transformation, and Learning 1. Red in Bits and Bytes: Evolutionary Conflicts in Biological God Games; Péter Makai 2. On Bikers at War: Transformations of Non-Fictional and Fictional Conflicts from Hamlet to Sons of Anarchy: Men of Mayhem ; Ulf Wilhelmson 3. From Zero-Sum Business Games to Coopetitive Simulation; J. Tuomas Harviainen 4. The Limits of ‘Serious’ Play: Frame Disputes Around Educational Games; Jonas Linderoth, Adam Chapman and Sebastian Deterding Part II: Representing War and Armed Conflicts 5. On Wargames and War: Modelling Carl von Clausewitz’s Theory of War; Ville Kankainen and llmari Käihkö 6. Wargames as Reenactment: An Ecological Framework for the Development of Military Games for Education; Adam Chapman and Jonas Linderoth 7. The Grasping Eye: Wargames and the Ideal-Typical Field Commander’s Inner Vision; Tomas Karlsson Part III: Critical Perspectives on Conflicts in Games 8. War Never Changes? Creating an American Victimology in Fallout 4 ; Ryan Scheiding 9. Are the Bullets Going Over our Head? Designed Ambivalence in the Representation of Armed Conflict in Games; Patrick Prax 10. Where are the White Perpetrators in all the Colonial Board Games? A Case Study on Afrikan Tähti ; Sabine Harrer and J. Tuomas Harviainen Part IV: Alternative Ways of Representing Conflicts in Games 11. Narrative and Mechanical Integration: Playing with Interpersonal Conflicts in Life is Strange ; Fatima Jonsson and Lina Eklund 12. The Most Intimate Conflict of all: Marriage as Conflict in Digital Games; Jakub Majewski and Piotr Siuda 13. All Smoke, No Fire: The Post-Mortem of Conflicts in the ‘Walking Simulator’ Genre; Jakub Majewski and Piotr Siuda Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 794.84885; Video games -- Social aspects; Interpersonal conflict; Two-person zero-sum games; Video games -- Psychological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000824872; 9781000824780
• Related ISBNs: 9781032278278; 9781032285597
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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