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Critical Play - Radical Game Design (Paperback)
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Critical Play - Radical Game Design (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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An examination of subversive games-games designed for political,
aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are
entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain
games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for
entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for
conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play,
artist and game designer Mary Flanagan examines alternative
games-games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the
gaming industry-and argues that games designed by artists and
activists are reshaping everyday game culture. Flanagan provides a
lively historical context for critical play through
twentieth-century art movements, connecting subversive game design
to subversive art: her examples of "playing house" include Dadaist
puppet shows and The Sims. She looks at artists' alternative
computer-based games and explores games for change, considering the
way activist concerns-including worldwide poverty and AIDS-can be
incorporated into game design. Arguing that this kind of conscious
practice-which now constitutes the avant-garde of the computer game
medium-can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan
offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of
popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and
proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the
reworking of contemporary popular game practices.
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