{"product_id":"video-game-characters-and-transmedia-joleen-blom-9789463722957","title":"Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character","description":"Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book introduces the dynamic game character, a type of game character with a development structure that consists of multiple outcomes in a game. Through their actions and choices, players can influence these game characters' identities and affect their possible destinies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Games subvert the idea that fictional persons must maintain a coherent identity. This book shows that dynamic game characters challenge strategies of top-down control through close readings of the \u003ccite\u003eMass Effect\u003c\/cite\u003e series, \u003ccite\u003ePersona 5, Hades, Animal Crossing: New Horizons\u003c\/cite\u003e and more. It is directed to all scholars interested in the topics of transmedia storytelling, video games, characters, and Japanese narratology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joleen Blom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9463722955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789463722957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amsterdam University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.30w x 0.79d","brand":"Joleen Blom","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44365401161983,"sku":"9789463722957","price":121.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe880969-80b8-4d3f-972c-18677ccf35cf.jpg?v=1697058313","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/video-game-characters-and-transmedia-joleen-blom-9789463722957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}