Immersive Gameplay
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Immersive Gameplay
- Author
- Evan Torner and William J. White, editors
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 978-0786468348
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 230
Summary
Immersive Gameplay: Essays on Participatory Media and Role-Playing is an academic study of role-playing games. It 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.
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.
Articles
- "Foreword" by Zach Waggoner
- "Introduction" by Evan Torner and William J. White
- "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
- "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
- "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
- Immersive Gameplay at McFarland Books
- "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