Game time : understanding temporality in video games / Christopher Hanson.

Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating... . Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time' Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital games have presented a new model for...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hanson, Christopher (Christopher C. P.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library, [2018]
Series:Digital game studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • More than live : game "a-liveness" and immediacy
  • Game presence and mediatization
  • Pausing and resuming
  • Saving and restoring
  • An instinct towards repetition : "replay value," mastery, and re-creation
  • Recursive temporalities
  • Case studies.