Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling - The Dynamic Game Character

Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined. This book introduces the dynamic game character, a type of game character with a development structure that consists of multiple outcomes in a game. Through their actions and choices, players can influence these game characters’ identities and affect their possible destinies. Games subvert the idea that fictional persons must maintain a coherent identity. This book shows that dynamic game characters challenge strategies of top-down control through close readings of the Mass Effect series, Persona 5, Hades, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and more. It is directed to all scholars interested in the topics of transmedia storytelling, video games, characters, and Japanese narratology.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Games and Play
Release date:	October 2023
Authors:	Joleen Blom
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	204
ISBN-13:	978-9463722957
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	9463722955
Barcode:	9789463722957

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