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Games and Bereavement : How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief / Sabine Harrer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Edition Medienwissenschaft ; 55Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839444153
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 794.8
LOC classification:
  • GV1469
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Credits -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theory -- 1.1 Videogame Representation -- 1.2 Understanding Bereavement -- Part 2: Analysis -- 2.1 Of Limit Breaks and Ghost Glitches: Losing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII -- 2.2 "You Were There": Losing Yorda in Ico -- 2.3 Conjugal Love: Losing the Spouse in Passage -- 2.4 Losing Big Brother in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons -- 2.5 "Let's All Be Good Mothers OK": Losing the Badger Cubs in Shelter -- 2.6 Designing for Loss and Grief: A Summary -- Part 3: Design -- 3.1 Grief-Based Game Design: A Case Study on Pregnancy Loss -- 3.2 Ideation with the Bereaved: The Trauerspiel Workshop -- 3.3 Designing Jocoi: A Game about Pregnancy Loss -- 3.4 On the Question of Impact: Evaluating Jocoi -- Making Space for Grief: Conclusive Thoughts -- References
Summary: How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by analysing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for videogames to include grievers into game development. Overall, she explores how videogames can be used as contemporary medium for personal storytelling.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Credits -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theory -- 1.1 Videogame Representation -- 1.2 Understanding Bereavement -- Part 2: Analysis -- 2.1 Of Limit Breaks and Ghost Glitches: Losing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII -- 2.2 "You Were There": Losing Yorda in Ico -- 2.3 Conjugal Love: Losing the Spouse in Passage -- 2.4 Losing Big Brother in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons -- 2.5 "Let's All Be Good Mothers OK": Losing the Badger Cubs in Shelter -- 2.6 Designing for Loss and Grief: A Summary -- Part 3: Design -- 3.1 Grief-Based Game Design: A Case Study on Pregnancy Loss -- 3.2 Ideation with the Bereaved: The Trauerspiel Workshop -- 3.3 Designing Jocoi: A Game about Pregnancy Loss -- 3.4 On the Question of Impact: Evaluating Jocoi -- Making Space for Grief: Conclusive Thoughts -- References

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How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by analysing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for videogames to include grievers into game development. Overall, she explores how videogames can be used as contemporary medium for personal storytelling.

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