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Role-Playing: Video Games as Performance
Benjamin Turner
ASIN: B00M4OBDVA
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 44

What is considered performance and how does it affect a gamer? This academic writing explores popular games and references practitioners of theatre and performance to investigate.Video games have a vastly expanding presence and have firmly established themselves as a recreational past-time of choice for many. In some ways video games have superseded television, cinema and theatre to become the popular recreational activity of our age.Whereas traditional forms of media have very strict boundaries of actor and audience, with video games it appears to be more clouded. When a gamer engages in a a video game world, in many cases (dependent upon genre) the game encourages a player to 'act' the role of the character they control.This book academically explores the relationship between gamer, actor and audience as new technology blurs lines between traditional established methods of ...
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