1st Edition
Ecogames Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis
612 Pages
by
Routledge
612 Pages
by
Routledge
With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicit ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well... Read more
Ecogames: An Introduction - Laura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, and Stefan Werning, Part I. Today's Challenges: Games for Change, Part II. Future Worlds: New Imaginaries, Part III. The Nonhuman Turn, Part IV. Critical Metagaming Practices, Index of Games, Index of Names, Index of Subjects
Biography
Laura op de Beke is Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, Screens, and Interfaces at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Joost Raessens is Full Professor and Chair of Media Theory at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Stefan Werning is Associate Professor of New Media and Game Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Gerald Farca is Professor for Game Design at the Faculty of Business, Design, and Technology at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany.
