Videogame Wastelands as (Non-)Places and ‘Any-Space-Whatevers’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Introduction 7
4. I. Spaces
5. What Do They Represent? 13
6. Playing with Sight 41
7. From Background to Protagonist 61
8. The Art of Being There 75
9. Space and Narrative in Computer Games 103
10. II. Places
11. Ludoforming 127
12. There’s No Place Like Home 141
13. Videogame Wastelands as (Non-)Places and ‘Any-Space-Whatevers’ 167
14. The Game and ‘The Stack’ 185
15. No End of Worlds 201
16. III. Territories
17. Itineraria Picta 215
18. Distance and Fear 231
19. The Rhetoric of Game Space 245
20. Morphology and Meaning in ‘Castle Wolfenstein 3D’ 271
21. Combinatorial Explorations 295
22. Authors 311