Immersive Gameplay
Immersive Gameplay
- Format
- Book
- Genre
- Academic, Non-fiction, Interdisciplinary, Anthology
- Date written or started
- September 15, 2012
- Credits
- Evan Torner and William J. White, editors
- Identifier
- ISBN-10: 0786468343 ISBN-13: 978-0786468348
- Website
- Immersive Gameplay
Summary
Immersive Gameplay: Essays on Participatory Media and Role-Playing, edited by Evan Torner and William J. White, published in 2012, examines the concept of "immersion" through various theoretical and practical lenses, with special focus upon live-action and tabletop role-playing games; reality television; social media apps; and first-person shooters.
Table of Contents:
"Foreword" by Zach Waggoner
"Introduction" by: Evan Torner and William J. White
PART 1 : MIND BREACHES ROLE-PLAYING "First Person Audience and the Art of Painful Role-Playing" by: Markus Montola and Jussi Holopainen
"Jungian Theory and Immersion in Role-Playing Games" by: Sarah Lynne Bowman
"Circles and Frames: The Games Social Scientists Play" by: Nathan Hook
PART 2 : ROLE-PLAYING BREACHES REALITY "Role-Playing Communities, Cultures of Play and the Discourse of Immersion" by: William J. White, Emily Care Boss, and J. Tuomas Harviainen
"Gary Alan Fine Revisited: RPG Research in the 21st Century" by: Katherine Castiello Jones
"The Agentic Imagination: Tabletop Role-Playing Games as a Cultural Tool" by: Todd Nicholas Fuist
PART 3 : REALITY BREACHES MEDIA "Kid Nation: Television, Systemic Violence and Game Design" by: Evan Torner
"Survivor Meets the Hero’s Journey: Connecting Mythic Structures to Reality Television" by: Erik Dulick
"A Game About Killing: Role-Playing in the Liminal Spaces of Social Network Games" by: Eric Newsom
"Deleting Memory Space: The Gaming of History and the Absence of the Holocaust" by: M.-Niclas Heckner
Additional links
In concert with the release of the book, Torner provided weekly interviews with many of the authors on his blog, including: Sarah Lynne Bowman, Emily Care Boss, and J. Tuomas Harviainen.
Links to interviews:
"Immersive Gameplay – Interview with Sarah Lynne Bowman" -- July 5, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay – Interview with Emily Care Boss" -- July 11, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay – Interview with J. Tuomas Harviainen" -- July 18, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay – Interview with Todd Nicholas Fuist" -- July 29, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay – Interview with Jussi Holopainen" -- August 12, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay - Interview with William J. White" -- August 19, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay - Interview with Nathan Hook" -- August 27, 2012
"Immersive Gameplay - Interview with Evan Torner" -- September 10, 2012