1st Edition
Transnational Play Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games
By Anne-Marie Schleiner
Copyright 2020
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
182 Pages
by
Routledge
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Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their... Read more
Introduction: Transnational Play,Section One: Reorienting Player Geographies, Chapter 1: Tilting the Axis of Global Play: From East/West to South/North, Chapter 2: Venues for Ludoliteracy: Arcades, Game Cafes, and Street Pirates, Chapter 3: The Free-to-play Time of Women in Brazil: Localized Mobile and Casual Games,Section Two: Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border, Chapter 4: Ludic Recycling in Latin American Art: From Remixing the City to Sampling Nature, Chapter 5: The Geopolitics of Pokémon Go: Navigating Bordering Cities with a Mobile Augmented Reality Game,Section Three: From Global to Local Game Development, Chapter 6: The Absence of the Oppressor: Games for Change and Californian Happiness Engineers, Chapter 7: Game Studios in Southeast Asia: Outsourced to Culturally Customized Games, Conclusion: Play Privilege, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Anne-Marie Schleiner is engaged in gaming and media culture in a variety of roles as a critic, theorist, activist, artist, and designer. She has exhibited in international galleries, museums and festivals. Documentation of her performative culture work is available on the Video Data Bank. She holds a doctorate in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. She has taught at universities in the United States, Mexico, and Singapore, and is a Lecturer in Design at the University of California, Davis.
Anne Marie Schleiner's Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) makes steps to shift and broaden the ways in which videogames and videogame play are approached and understood within game studies. [...] Transnational Play remains timely and relevant.- John Sharp, Game Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, May 2021
Anne Marie Schleiner's Transnational Play: Piracy, Urban Art, and Mobile Games (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) makes steps to shift and broaden the ways in which videogames and videogame play are approached and understood within game studies. [...] Transnational Play remains timely and relevant.- John Sharp, Game Studies, Volume 21, Issue 1, May 2021
