Games and Bereavement How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss and Grief

How can videogames portray love and loss? »Games and Bereavement« answers this question by analysing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for vid...

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Main Author: Harrer, Sabine (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2018
Series:Edition Medienwissenschaft
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