Agar.io: The Game's in the Name. Issue 2 (March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Agar.io: The Game's in the Name. Issue 2 (March 2019)
- Main Title:
- Agar.io: The Game's in the Name
- Authors:
- Lindsey, Cameron
- Other Names:
- Chess Shira guest-editor.
Paul Christopher guest-editor. - Abstract:
- Agar.io is a web and app game with simplistic rules and a minimalistic design. Despite this, the game grew to great global prominence in 2015, and the narratives players constructed within the game had great sociopolitical implications from its affects on web culture and even to national political campaigns. This article points to the leaderboard and the ability to broadcast messages to other users through player usernames as the primary reason for the game's success as a platform for users to broadcast messages. Agar.io, through usernames and omnipresent leaderboards broadcasting these names, affords players the chance to put their ideologies and allegiances in competition through a simulation of a "survival of the fittest" cell culture. Through a formal analysis of the game this article shows that, for Agar.io, the game is in the name(s).
- Is Part Of:
- Games and culture. Volume 14:Issue 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Games and culture
- Issue:
- Volume 14:Issue 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 14, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0014-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 154
- Page End:
- 169
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03
- Subjects:
- web games -- casual games -- politics -- Agar.io -- app games -- Internet culture -- trolling -- toxic technoculture
Games -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Video games -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Computer games -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Interactive multimedia -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
303.4834 - Journal URLs:
- http://gac.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gac ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1555412018821483 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1555-4120
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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