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 …

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 …

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating.... Has the
ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time? Video …

This article is a collective response to the 2003 iteration of James Paul Gee's What Video
Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Gee's book, a foundational text for …

This article introduces “slow game time” as a way of explaining some players' negative
responses to the prevailing animation, gameplay and storytelling tempo of Rockstar Studios' …

Drawing upon twentieth-century literary fiction and cinema as well as the philosophy of Dan
Zahavi and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article first identifies the doppelgänger trope in …

A growing number of new games utilize rewind as a narrative mechanic and there is an
increasing need for a reliable way to understand and evaluate storytelling in such games …

This article analyzes how game studies scholars cite videogames in their research. A
content analysis of over 580 articles from the field's two main journals is used to identify the …

Recently an increasing number of narrative games have incorporated the metagaming
elements of rewinding as their core mechanics. Although there has been research on …

This study analyzes liminal spaces in video games using a geographical framework and
comparative methodology, focusing on three distinct released between 2007 and 2008. By …