Combat to Conversation: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Games

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Combat to Conversation: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Games

dc.creator	Johnson, Matthew S. S.
dc.date.accessioned	2022-01-06T14:30:15Z
dc.date.available	2022-01-06T14:30:15Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.description.abstract	In "Combat to Conversation," I first conduct a rhetorical analysis of representative examples of video game scholarship in order to reveal that much of digital game studies lacks the close-readings of individual games necessary to establish viable video game theory. I then provide an example of the type of close-reading that can be done -- specifically on the adventure game Indigo Prophecy -- which I argue illustrates a form of gameplaying and storytelling that resists easy classification by either ludologists or narratologists.	en
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17704
dc.identifier.uri	https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18667
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Roberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.place	Providence
dc.relation.isPartOf	issn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subject	Game Studies	en
dc.subject	narratology-ludology debate	en
dc.subject	methodology	en
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:791
dc.title	Combat to Conversation: Towards a Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Games	en
dc.type	article
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dspace.entity.type	Article	en
local.coverpage	2022-01-06T15:34:13
local.source.epage	13
local.source.issue	1
local.source.issueTitle	Nr. 37
local.source.spage	1
local.source.volume	9

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