Handbook of Computer Game Studies

Description:

New media students, teachers, and professionals have long needed a comprehensive scholarly treatment of digital games that deals with the history, design, reception, and aesthetics of games along with their social and cultural context. The Handbook of Computer Game Studies fills this need with a definitive look at the subject from a broad range of perspectives. Contributors come from cognitive science and artificial intelligence, developmental, social, and clinical psychology, history, film, theater, and literary studies, cultural studies, and philosophy as well as game design and development. The text includes both scholarly articles and journalism from such well-known voices as Douglas Rushkoff, Sherry Turkle, Henry Jenkins, Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman, and others.

Part I considers the "prehistory" of computer games (including slot machines and pinball machines), the development of computer games themselves, and the future of mobile gaming. The chapters in part II describe game development from the designer's point of view, including the design of play elements, an analysis of screenwriting, and game-based learning. Part III reviews empirical research on the psychological effects of computer games, and includes a discussion of the use of computer games in clinical and educational settings. Part IV considers the aesthetics of games in comparison to film and literature, and part V discusses the effect of computer games on cultural identity, including gender and ethnicity. Finally, part VI looks at the relation of computer games to social behavior, considering, among other matters, the inadequacy of laboratory experiments linking games and aggression and the different modes of participation in computer game culture.

Joost Raessens is Associate Professor of New Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Utrecht.

Jeffrey Goldstein is Professor in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Utrecht.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
I	Computer Games	1
1	Slots of Fun, Slots of Trouble: An Archaeology of Arcade Gaming Erkki Huhtamo	3
2	The History of the Video Game Steven Malliet and Gust de Meyer	23
3	Future of Games: Mobile Gaming Justin Hall	47
II	Design	57
4	Game Design and Meaningful Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman	59
5	Click Reading: Screenwriting and Screen-Reading Practices in Film and Multimedia Fictions Isabelle Raynauld	81
6	Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning Marc Prensky	97
III	Reception	123
7	Cognitive Effects of Video Games Sandra L. Calvert	125
8	Children's Social Behavior during Video Game Play Robyn M. Holmes and Anthony D. Pellegrini	133
9	Psychological Effects of Video Games Barrie Gunter	145
10	The Therapeutic Value of Video Games Mark Griffiths	161
IV	Games as an Aesthetic Phenomenon	173
11	Games, the New Lively Art Henry Jenkins	175
12	Genre and the Video Game Mark J. P. Wolf	193
13	The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Game Genres John E. Laird and Michael van Lent	205
14	Games Telling Stories? Jesper Juul	219
15	Narrativity in Computer Games Britta Neitzel	227
V	Games as a Cultural Phenomenon	249
16	The Game of Life: Narrative and Ludic Identity Formation in Computer Games Jos de Mul	251
17	Computer Games as Evocative Objects: From Projective Screens to Relational Artifacts Sherry Turkle	267
18	Gaming with Grrls: Looking for Sheroes in Computer Games Birgit Richard and Jutta Zaremba	283
19	Gendered Gaming in Gendered Space Jo Bryce and Jason Rutter	301
20	Serious Play: Playing with Race in Contemporary Gaming Culture Anna Everett	311
21	Simulation, History, and Computer Games William Uricchio	327
VI	Games as a Social Phenomenon	339
22	Violent Video Games Jeffrey Goldstein	341
23	Does Video Games Addiction Exist? Mark Griffiths and Mark N. O. Davies	359
24	Computer Games as Participatory Media Culture Joost Raessens	373
25	I Am What I Play: Participation and Reality as Content Jan-Willem Huisman and Hanne Marckmann	389
26	Game Reconstruction Workshop: Demolishing and Evolving PC Games and Gamer Culture Anne-Marie Schleiner	405
27	Renaissance Now! The Gamers' Perspective Douglas Rushkoff	415
	About the Contributors	423
	Games Index	429
	Name Index	435
	Subject Index	447

描述：
新媒體學生、教師和專業人士長期以來一直需要一本全面的學術著作，以探討數位遊戲的歷史、設計、接受度和美學，以及其社會和文化背景。《電腦遊戲研究手冊》從廣泛的觀點出發，填補了這一需求。貢獻者來自認知科學和人工智能、發展、社會和臨床心理學、歷史、電影、戲劇和文學研究、文化研究和哲學，以及遊戲設計和開發領域。本書包括學術文章和來自道格拉斯·拉什科夫、雪莉·特克爾、亨利·詹金斯、凱蒂·薩倫、埃里克·齊默曼等知名人士的新聞報導。

第一部分考慮了電腦遊戲的“前史”（包括老虎機和彈珠機）、電腦遊戲本身的發展以及移動遊戲的未來。第二部分的章節從設計師的角度描述了遊戲開發，包括遊戲元素的設計、劇本分析和基於遊戲的學習。第三部分回顧了關於電腦遊戲心理效應的實證研究，並討論了在臨床和教育環境中使用電腦遊戲的問題。第四部分將遊戲的美學與電影和文學進行比較，第五部分討論了電腦遊戲對文化身份的影響，包括性別和種族。最後，第六部分探討了電腦遊戲與社會行為的關係，包括實驗室實驗將遊戲與侵略行為聯繫起來的不足之處，以及參與電腦遊戲文化的不同方式。

Joost Raessens是荷蘭烏特勒支大學藝術學院新媒體研究副教授。

Jeffrey Goldstein是荷蘭烏特勒支大學社會與組織心理學系教授。

目錄：
致謝
導言
第一部分：電腦遊戲
第一章：樂趣的老虎機，麻煩的老虎機：一個電玩遊戲考古學
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