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 article sketches a theoretical framework and method for the analysis of transmedia
characters that focuses on specific instantiations of these characters in individual media …

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super
Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus …

The primary aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive review and elaboration of
model matching and its theo-retical propositions. Model matching explains and predicts …

This article presents a short guide that illustrates a hermeneutic procedure for game
analysis. The guide has been divided into three parts. The first part delineates the …

This article explores the cultural appropriation of the term avatar by Western tech culture and
what this implies for scholarship of digital games, virtual worlds, social media, and digital …

The Dynamic Game Character: Definition, Construction, and Challenges in a Character Ecology
Page 1 The Dynamic Game Character: Definition, Construction, and Challenges in a Character …

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super
Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus …

Characterization refers to the process of attributing character traits to narrative entities called
'characters'. While there is a long tradition of characterization theory in literary studies, the …

This book brings together ideas about defamiliarization and poetic gameplay that I have
been exploring for some time but had not clearly grounded either historically or theoretically …