03586nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-72092-5 DE-He213 20251030113318.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241119s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031720925 978-3-031-72092-5 10.1007/978-3-031-72092-5 doi P94.6-.65 GV1199-1570 JFD bicssc SOC052000 bisacsh JBCT thema Punday, Daniel. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 87710 Infrastructure in Video Games [electronic resource] / by Daniel Punday. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VIII, 102 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Introduction: Infrastructure Studies -- Chapter 2: Inform, Game Rules, World State, and Interfaces -- Chapter 3: Levers and Watchtowers -- Chapter 4: Avatars and Governmentality -- Chapter 5: Maintenance and Scarcity -- Chapter 6: Interfaces and Fictional Worlds -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Occasion of New Infrastructure. This book will sketch the dynamics of infrastructure in video games, focusing on the relationship between game rules, fictional world, and player interaction. It will discuss a variety of commercial video games, both mainstream and somewhat niche, that use infrastructure in different ways: Control, Wolfenstein, Fallout, This War of Mine, Exocolonist, Cyberpunk, and Frostpunk. Video games offer a particularly rich field for thinking about the relationship between narrative and infrastructure. The infrastructures that exist in the fictional worlds of these games define the experience of play in a very direct way: how players are instantiated in the game, how they move around the play space, the resources that are available, and so on. And those infrastructures in turn very directly definite the nature of the fictional world. In contrast to literary fiction, were infrastructures might remain on the periphery of some stories, by virtue of the centrality of player interaction video games are inherently infrastructural. Daniel Punday is Professor of English at Mississippi State University, USA. He is the author of six books, including Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory, Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Fiction and Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology. Games. 66570 Popular Culture. 57605 Prose literature. 68654 Digital media. 59274 Games Studies. 66572 Popular Culture. 57605 Narrative Text and Prose. 68655 Digital and New Media. 65945 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031720918 Printed edition: 9783031720932 Printed edition: 9783031720949 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72092-5 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65046 65046