Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling The Dynamic Game Character

• Egile nagusia: Blom, Joleen (auth)
• Formatua: Baliabide elektronikoa Liburu kapitulua
• Hizkuntza: ingelesa
• Argitaratua: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2023
• Saila: Games and Play 9
• Gaiak: Other graphic art forms; Computer games / online games: strategy guides; Dynamic Game Characters, transmedia practices, game studies, reader-response theory
• Sarrera elektronikoa: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined. This book introduces the dynamic game character, a type of game character with a development structure that consists of multiple outcomes in a game. Through their actions and choices, players can influence these game characters' identities and affect their possible destinies. Games subvert the idea that fictional persons must maintain a coherent identity. This book shows that dynamic game characters challenge strategies of top-down control through close readings of the Mass Effect series, Persona 5, Hades, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and more. It is directed to all scholars interested in the topics of transmedia storytelling, video games, characters, and Japanese narratology.

Deskribapen fisikoa

1 electronic resource (208 p.)

ISBN

9789463722957

Sartu

Open Access