Mytholudics
Ford, Dom
Produktnummer:
18aa426db7b61d47149a3d6336cf91b032
Autor: | Ford, Dom |
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Themengebiete: | Kulturwissenschaften Myth criticism Mythologie Spieltheorie Videospiele cultural studies game studies play theory |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 21.04.2025 |
EAN: | 9783111341279 |
Auflage: | 1 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 358 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Verlag: | De Gruyter Oldenbourg |
Untertitel: | Games and Myth |
Produktinformationen "Mytholudics"
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is taken here not as an object but as a process, a way of expressing meaning. It works to naturalise arbitrary constellations of signs, to connect things in meaning. Behind the phrase ‘just the way it is’ is a process of mythologization that has cemented it. Mytholudics lays out how this understanding of myth works for the analysis of games. In two sections each analysing five digital games, it then shows how this approach works in practice: one through the lens of heroism and one through monstrosity. These ask questions such as what heroic mythology is constructed in Call of Duty? What do the monsters in The Witcher tell us about the game’s model of the world? How does Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice weave a conflict between Norse and Pictish mythology into one between competing models of seeing mental illness? This method helps to see games and their worlds in the whole. Stories, gameplay, systems, rules, spatial configurations and art styles can all be considered together as contributing to the meaning of the game.

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