Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games by Fuchs, Mathias

Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501332920)

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Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games by Fuchs, Mathias

Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games

$150.00
Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games by Fuchs, Mathias

Phantasmal Spaces: Archetypical Venues in Computer Games

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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Recognizable, recurring spatial settings in video games serve not only as points of reference and signposts for orientation, but also as implicit sources of content. These spatial archetypes denote more than real-world objects or settings: they suggest and bring forward emotional states, historical context, atmospheric "attunement, +? in the words of Massumi, and aesthetic programs that go beyond plain semiotic reference.

In each chapter, Mathias Fuchs brings to the fore an archetype commonly found in old and new digital games: The Ruin, The Cave, The Cloud, The Portal, The Road, The Forest, and The Island are each analysed at length, through the perspectives of aesthetics, games technology, psychoanalysis, and intertextuality. Gridding these seven tropes together with these four analytical lenses provides the reader with a systematic framework to understand the various complex considerations at play in evocative game design.

Author: Mathias Fuchs
ISBN-10: 1501332929
ISBN-13: 9781501332920
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2019
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
By Mathias Fuchs
By Mathias Fuchs
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Mathias Fuchs is Professor at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. An artist as well as media scholar, Fuchs pioneered the artistic use of computer games and has exhibited work at ISEA, SIGGRAPH and the Millennium Dome. He is the editor of Diversity of Play (2015) and co-editor of Rethinking Gamification (2014).

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