Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Prolog
4. Playing, Making, Thinking Games 11
5. I. Games
6. Introduction 33
7. 1. What is a Game? Systematic and Historical Approaches 35
8. 2. Games in the Modern Era. A Short Media History 43
9. 3. Procedural Turn (since the 1950s) 59
10. 4. Hyperepic Turn (since the 1970s) 69
11. 5. Hyperrealistic Turn (since the 1990s) At 81
12. 6. The Double Alterity of Digital Games 91
13. 7. A Look Ahead: Hyperimmersive Turn? 97
14. Intermezzo: Game // Film
15. Introduction 111
16. 1. Game and Film 115
17. 2. Audiovisual Rivalries 125
18. 3. Modes of Audiovisual Storytelling 131
19. II. Game Design
20. Introduction 143
21. 1. Analog Design 147
22. 2. Digital Design 153
23. 3. A Short History of Game Design 161
24. 4. Areas of Games Design 165
25. 5. Practices of Game Design 171
26. III. Game Studies
27. Introduction 187
28. 1. Theories of Analog Games vs. Theories of Digital Games 191
29. 2. The Schisms of Game Studies 201
30. 3. Desideratum: Overcoming the Schisms 209
31. 4. Perspectives of Research 1: Digital Games 217
32. 5. Perspectives of Research 2: Serious Games 225
33. Epilog
34. Academization and Aesthetic Production 235
35. Sources 263