Gundolf S. Freyermuth

'That's It' is an intimate and informative portrait of Charles Bukowski. Based on the very last interview he gave, the book combines reporting with literary criticism. It renders a final and lasting picture of Charles Bukowski and assesses his importance as a writer. A 'must read' for Bukowski fans.

That's It. A Final Visit With Charles Bukowski

Hanns Christian Schmidt

Benjamin Beil

This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?

Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play

Paratextualizing Games

Raven Rusch

Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization. The contributors examine this playful materiality from various angles.

The Stuff that Games Are Made Of

Playful Materialities

Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced - i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games - as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text?

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new medium's social effects and cultural meaning develop? Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S. Freyermuth's introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analog and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies. With contributions by André Czauderna, Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman.

An Introduction

Games | Game Design | Game Studies

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Kommunikette 2.0

Lisa Gotto

Der Band »New Game Plus« präsentiert eine vielfältige Auswahl aktueller Methoden und Ansätze der Computerspielforschung. Die Beiträge fragen: Welche Themen beherrschen die Game Studies, nachdem viele ehemals zentrale Debatten allenfalls noch historischen Wert besitzen? Welche (inter-)disziplinären Kooperationen haben sich als fruchtbar erwiesen, welche sind gescheitert? Wie verhalten sich Game Studies und Game Design bzw. Game-Design-Theorie zueinander? Und nicht zuletzt: Wie hat der (massen-)kulturelle Durchbruch digitaler Spiele andere Disziplinen beeinflusst, etwa Literatur-, Kunst-, Theater- und Filmwissenschaft? Mit Beiträgen von u.a. Ian Bogost, Thomas Hensel, Jesse Schell, Stephan Schwingeler und Eric Zimmerman.

Perspektiven der Game Studies. Genres - Künste - Diskurse

New Game Plus

Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why? This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.

Futures in Digital Games

Playing Utopia

Wie stiegen Games zur zentralen audiovisuellen Ausdrucks- und Erzählform der digitalen Kultur auf? Wie entstanden die Verfahren ihrer künstlerischen Produktion? Und wie formierte sich die wissenschaftliche Analyse der sozialen Wirkung und kulturellen Bedeutung des neuen Mediums? Diese grundlegenden Fragen und Aspekte digitaler Spielkultur nimmt die Einführung erstmals ganzheitlich in den Blick. Gundolf S. Freyermuth skizziert die mediengeschichtlichen Entwicklungsphasen analoger und digitaler Spiele, die Geschichte und künstlerischen Praktiken des Game Designs sowie die Geschichte, wissenschaftlichen Ansätze und wichtigsten Forschungsfragen der Game Studies.

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