The Counterfeit Coin : Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
197882551X
ISBN-13
9781978825512
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Imprint
Rutgers University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 12th, 2023
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
458 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.40 x 1.90 cms
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Argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. The book introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric—an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish—fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.
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