Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last
few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from …

The nascent growth of video games has led to great leaps in technical understanding in how
to create a functional and entertaining play experience. However, the complex, mixed-affect …

What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our
lifeworlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media …

This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for
studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The …

Audience Participation Games challenge traditional assumptions about gameplay by
blurring the line between audience and player, allowing audience members to impact …

Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating
gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various ways to reflect on the …

Videogames can transform the perspectives and attitudes of players. Prior discussion on this
transformative potential has typically been limited to non-entertainment videogames with …

This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We
consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming …

Agency has long been considered one of the core pleasures of interacting with digital
games. Recent treatments of agency in games culture and game design have grown …

Live streaming sites such as Twitch offer new ways for remote audiences to engage with and
affect gameplay. While research has considered how audiences interact with games, HCI …