Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality is a scholarly study of the intense relationship
between reader and story world, analyzing the way audiences become absorbed in a fictive …

Video games challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a
powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to …

Role-playing games have evolved into many forms in their thirty-year history. From the
traditional pen-and-paper form, that originated with Dungeons & Dragons, with a group of …

Pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating... Has manipulating video
game timelines altered our experience of time?“Compelling.”—Choice Video game scholar …

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 …

Extant results on the binge-watching outcomes have been mixed. This study sought to
examine the crucial factor of attentiveness that might help to enhance viewer experience …

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a
player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new …

Video games can position players in a specific time and space. This paper will argue that the
experiences of both are closely interdependent. As a consequence, we need to re-evaluate …

Game time is a core feature of game design and study, and forms part of the gaming
experience on a variety of levels. It can be viewed from multiple perspectives, for example …

Trans-reality games are games that take advantage of pervasive, mobile, ubiquitous,
location-based and mixed reality technical infrastructures to create game spaces that can …