Introduction: Slow Play

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Acknowledgments 11
5. Mental Health
6. Play, Games, Mental Health 13
7. Gaming Disorder – a “lousy” and “meaningless” label 21
8. Protecting the Youth by Controlling the Ludic 35
9. Mindspaces 51
10. Reclaiming Agency 63
11. Digital Fictions: Towards Designing Narrative Driven Games as Therapy 77
12. Gamification and Mobile Apps: Allies in Reducing Loneliness Among Young Adults 87
13. Mental Health of Twitch Streamers During COVID-19 103
14. The End is Never The End is Never The End 117
15. Atmospheres
16. Introduction: Slow Play 127
17. Cool Games, Cool Japan 147
18. “Wind's howling.” Meteorological Phenomena as Atmospheres in Digital Games 161
19. I Don’t Feel at Home in this Game Anymore 177
20. Generative Atmospheres 195
21. Sounding the Atmosphere 209
22. Systemically Implied Atmospheres 227
23. Conclusion: Toward an Atmospherology of Digital Games 243
24. Contributors 255