An exploration of #VideoGame performances, this book merges #MediaTheory with performativity, revealing insights from Western art to digital storytelling.

Perfect for researchers intrigued by #Gaming, #Art, and nonlinear #Narrative.

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/performativity-in-art-literature-and-videogames

#Ludology #Performance #GameStudies #Portal #DarkSouls #Destiny #Doom #FinalFantasy #GodHand #HalfLife #LifeIsStrange #MetalGear #Minecraft #Planescape #StarCraft #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #VideoGames #Gamer #Literature

It's not often I stumble across Russian #GameStudies

In 2021's "Game Room" (Игродром), author Alexander Vetushinsky delves into #Gaming's cultural impact through the lenses of philosophy, psychology and media theory.

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/game-room-what-you-need-to-know-about-video-games-and-gaming-culture

#Game #VideoGame #VideoGames #GlobalPerspective #Ludology #Russian #Russia #Gamer #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Games #GameRoom

The #FinalFantasy series has some of the most beloved #VideoGame music of all time.

In this book, Jérémie Kermarrec dives into the talented works of Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Masashi Hamauzu and more!

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-music-of-final-fantasy-from-nobuo-uematsu-to-his-successors

#Music #Musicology #Ludology #Ludomusicology #FFVII #FFVIIR #Rebirth #Book #Books #bookstodon @bookstodon #RPG #Gaming #Gamer #VideoGames #JRPG #VGM #VideoGameMusic #FFVI #FFIV #FF7 #FF6 #FF8 #FF9 #FFIX #FFX #FinalFantasyVIII #FinalFantasyIX #SquareEnix #Squaresoft

What if all workplace cultures were as well-crafted as #VideoGames

The Engagement Game shows how organizational culture and leadership can be super-charged by applying the same principles that a #GameDev applies when creating games.

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-engagement-game-why-your-workplace-culture-should-look-more-like-a-video-game

#Psychology #GameStudies #Gaming #VideoGame #Gamer #Game #Management #Leadership #SelfHelp #Book #Books #bookstodon @bookstodon #DIY #Ludology #GameDevs #GDC #WorkplaceCulture

More #GameStudies added!

Flow describes an experience of "being in the zone," of intense absorption in an activity.

This book offers a critical assessment of flow's historical, theoretical, political, and ideological contexts in relation to #VideoGames

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/against-flow-video-games-and-the-flowing-subject

#Gaming #Gamer #VideoGame #Psychology #Ludology #Game #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #MihalyCsikszentmihalyi #Psychonauts #CrashBandicoot #Celeste #DinerDash #DonutCounty #HalfLife #Hellblade #Portal #WorldOfGoo

Comics, Brettspiele, digitale Gamesmaps, als Ludologe an der SRH University Berlin forschen, lehren und schreiben, die Anerkennung des Spiels als Kulturgut vorantreiben - seit fast 40 Jahren befasst sich Prof. Dr. Jens Junge mit dem #Spiel in all seinen Formen.

Am 4.7. kommt er zur @SDNue Ed #2 ins Spielzeugmuseum Nürnberg, Teilnahme auch von remote möglich!

https://sdnue.de/referent-jens-junge/