The Player's Power to Change the Game: Ludic Mutation
Anne-Marie Schleiner
(Author)
Description
In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls "ludic mutation," a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogrammed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.
Product Details
Price
$55.14
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Publish Date
April 15, 2017
Pages
162
Dimensions
6.1 X 9.2 X 0.4 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9789089647726
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Anne-Marie Schleiner is an artist, a designer, and an instructor of communications and new media at the National University of Singapore.