The fundamentals of video game literacy : theory, practice, and aesthetics /

"This book posits a novel framework for sense-making and meaning-making in the play of video games. Extending a modern, process-oriented, audience-inclusive philosophy of artistic meaning generation, the book grapples with the question of how to personally and critically examine video games as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zhao, Ryan, 1990- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2025.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Video games > Design. Video games > Authorship. Jeux vidéo > Conception. Jeux vidéo > Art d'écrire.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Key terms
Reading game design
Interfacing with games
Other models of meaning-making for video games
Layered literacy, Part 1: Diegesis, mimesis, methexis
Layered literacy, Part 2: sense-making
Layered literacy, Part 3: Meaning-making
Narrative
Perspective-taking
Instantiation and characterization
Expressivity
Glitches, cheating, and metagame
Ideology and ethics.