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Videogame Formalism: On Form, Aesthetic Experience and Methodology book cover

1st Edition

Videogame Formalism On Form, Aesthetic Experience and Methodology

By Alex Mitchell, Jasper Van Vught Copyright 2024
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Formalism is often used as an all-embracing term covering a range of ontological and methodological approaches in game studies, with little connection to the history or tradition of the approach in other fields. This dilutes the usefulness of the approach, and invites (often unfounded) criticism. Videogame Formalism addresses these issues through an exploration of the historical and theoretical... Read more
Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. On Videogame Form, 3. On Aesthetic Experience, 4. On Methodology, 5. Applying Formalism, 6. Conclusion, About the Authors, Index.

Biography

Alex Mitchell teaches in the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. His research investigates defamiliarization in gameplay, motivations for replaying story-focused games, authoring tools, and collaborative storytelling. He is a founding member of the executive board of the Association for Research in Interactive Digital Narratives (ARDIN). Jasper van Vught is assistant professor in the department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University (Netherlands). His research includes methodological challenges to studying games as texts and pedagogical challenges to teaching about them. He’s a core member of the Centre for the Study of Digital Games and Play.

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