Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction: Why Game Production Matters? 7
4. Contributors 7
5. Labour
6. 1. Hobbyist Game Making Between Self-Exploitation and Self- Emancipation 29
7. 2. Self-Making and Game Making in the Future of Work 47
8. 3. Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Circulations and Biographies of French Game Workers in a ‘Global Games’ Era 65
9. 4. Intermediating the Everyday : Indie Game Development and the Labour of Co-Working Spaces 83
10. Development
11. 5. Game Developers Playing Games : Instrumental Play, Game Talk, and Preserving the Joy of Play 103
12. 6. Game Development Live on Twitch : Observations of Practice and Educational Synergies 123
13. 7. Unity Production: Capturing the Everyday Game Maker Market 141
14. 8. More Than One Flop from Bankruptcy : Rethinking Sustainable Independent Game Development 159
15. Publishing & Monetization
16. 9. How to Study Game Publishers: Activision Blizzard’s Corporate History 179
17. 10. Who Creates Microtransactions : The Production Context of Video Game Monetization 197
18. 11. Regulating In-Game Monetization : Implications of Regulation on Games Production 217
19. Regional Perspectives
20. 12. Promises of the Periphery : Producing Games in the Communist and Transformation-Era Czechoslovakia 237
21. 13. Construction and Negotiation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivities in the Polish Video Game Industry 257
22. 14. The Development of Greater China’s Games Industry : From Copying to Imitation to Innovation 275
23. Before and After: Towards Inclusive Production Studies, Theories, and Methods 293
24. Complete Bibliography 309
25. Index 347