The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments (Routledge Advances in Game Studies) 9781138548671, 1138548677

Games allow players to experiment and play with subject positions, values and moral choice. In game worlds players can t

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Table of contents :
Part I: Introduction
1. Dark Play: The Aesthetics of Controversial Playfulness by Torill Elvira Mortensen and Jonas Linderoth

Part II: Discourses of Dark Play
2. Analyzing Game Controversies: A Historical Approach to Moral Panics and Digital Games by Faltin Karlsen
3. Of Heroes and Henchmen: The Conventions of Killing Generic Expendables in Digital Games by René Glas
4. Don’t Forget to Die: A Software Update is Available for the Death Drive by Emily Flynn-Jones

Part III: Dark Play or Darkly Played?
5. Killing Digital Children: Design, Discourse and Player Agency by Björn Sjöblom
6. Little Evils: Subversive Uses of Children’s Games by Frans Mäyrä
7. Darkly Playing Others by Miguel Sicart

Part IV: Dark Play and Situated Meaning
8. Three Defences for the Fourteen-Inch Barbed Penis: Darkly Playing with Morals, Ethics and Sexual Violence by Ashley ML Brown
9. Exploring the Limits of Play: A Case Study of Representations of Nazism in Games by Adam Chapman and Jonas Linderoth
10. Keeping the Balance: Morals at the Dark Side by Torill Elvira Mortensen
11. Fabricated Innocence: On How People Can be Lured into Feel Bad Games by Staffan Björk

Part V: Designing for Dark Play
12. Massively Multiplayer Dark Play; Treacherous Play in EVE Online by Marcus Carter
13. Dark Play in Dishonored by Kristine Jørgensen
14. Sonic Descents: Musical Dark Play in Survival and Psychological Horror by Isabella van Elferen
15. Boosting, Glitching and Modding Call of Duty: Assertive Dark Play Manifestations, Communities, Pleasures and Organic Resilience by Alan Meades

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