Wandering Games - 9780262544245

MIT Press Ltd

An analysis of wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death.\nWandering in games can be a theme, a formal mode, an aesthetic metaphor, or a player action. It can mean walking, escaping, traversing, meandering, or returning. In this book, game studies scholar Melissa Kagen introduces the concept of \u201Cwandering games,\u201D exploring the uses of wandering in a variety of game worlds. She shows how the much-derided Walking Simulator\u2014a term that began as an insult, a denigration of games that are less violent, less task-oriented, or less difficult to complete\u2014semi-accidentally tapped into something brilliant: the vast heritage and intellectual history of the concept of walking in fiction, philosophy, pilgrimage, performance, and protest.\n\nWandering Games\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price adv;