Edited by Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung
Cover Art: Down and Out in Los Santos (Alan Butler, 2015-2020) https://downandout.in-los-santos.com
Summary
Vol. 1 – Journal (peer-reviewed) - download the pdf
Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung – Introduction: “Would You Kindly?” The Interdisciplinary Trajectories of Video Game Agency
Frans Mäyrä: The Player as a Hybrid – Agency ...
G|A|M|E Issue 8, 2019 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Video Game Agency
Edited by Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung
Cover Art: Down and Out in Los Santos (Alan Butler, 2015-2020) https://downandout.in-los-santos.com
Summary
Vol. 1 – Journal (peer-reviewed) - download the pdf
Ivan Girina & Berenike Jung – Introduction: “Would You Kindly?” The Interdisciplinary Trajectories of Video Game Agency
Frans Mäyrä: The Player as a Hybrid – Agency ...
“Would You Kindly?” The Interdisciplinary Trajectories of Video Game Agency
Ivan Girina (Brunel University, London)
Berenike Jung (King’s College London)
download the pdf
Figure 1: Jack’s revelatory flashback during his final confrontation with Rapture’s tyrant Andrew Ryan.
Introduction
With its 8th issue, G|A|M|E proposes a re-examination of the concept of agency in video games. Departing from its notion as an aesthetic pleasure ...
The Player as a Hybrid: Agency in Digital Game Cultures
Frans Mäyrä (Tampere University)
download the pdf
Abstract
This article studies the player as a hybrid: a particular compound version of subjectivity that emerges from involvement with the contents, cultures and technologies of games. Drawing from both cultural studies of technology and phenomenology of game play, the article aims to connect ...
Unhuman Agency: Reading Subjectivities in Playdead’s Inside
Vicki Williams (University of Birmingham)
download the pdf
Figure 1 - Screenshot taken from Inside (Playdead, 2016). All figures included in this article are courtesy of Playdead
Abstract
Videogames and their systems of play are continuously defined through their slipperiness, i.e. their affective capacities that attend to realms beyond the human, producing agencies which ...
A Meta-Synthesis of Agency in Game Studies. Trends, Troubles, Trajectories
Stephanie C. Jennings (Michigan State University)
download the pdf
Abstract
This paper undertakes a meta-synthesis of fifty-nine qualitative and humanistic studies in order to comprehensively examine the research on agency in the field of game studies. By addressing individual studies in their interrelatedness and divergences, a meta-synthesis gauges the tremors of thematic trends ...
“You bastards may take exactly what I give you”: Intra-Action and Agency in Return of the Obra Dinn
Conor McKeown (King's College London)
download the pdf
Screenshot of Return to the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope, 2018)
Abstract
In this paper, l propose an addition to the existing writing on agency within digital game studies (including but not limited to Murray, 1997; Bogost, 2006; Wardrip-Fruin et al., 2009; Aarseth, 2012), arguing for a ...