Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World

Lindsey Joyce, Ph.D., is a former lecturer of Game Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work focuses primarily on digital interactive narrative system design and can be found via Inter-Disciplinary Press, Brill, and McFarland Press.Víctor Navarro-Remesal, Ph.D., is a researcher in Game Studies and assistant professor at CESAG (Comillas Pontifical University), and a specialist in East Asian Studies. He has published books and papers on freedom, ethics, and narrative in videogames.

• Notes on Contributors0 Video Games, Culture, and Everything: An IntroductionVictor Navarro-RemesalPlayers: Types and Identities1 Is Your Masculinity Threatened? Then You’re Not Man Enough to Play: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 and Beyond the Gender ChallengePeter Feer and Robin Skinner2 We Are Smash Bros: Understanding Player Types and Ideals Through Worldwide Game DesignBradley McAvoy-James and Bobbie Fletcher3 Empowering Avatars: The Impact of In-Game Presence on Everyday FunctioningMarta Tymińska4 Without so Much as a Word: Non-Verbal Performances of Masculine Identity in Adolescent Call of Duty PlayersGareth HealeyThe Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect5 Agents in Space and Time: Fundamentals of Interactive Narrative SystemsLindsey Joyce6 Killswitch Engage: Ethics in Game DesignArmin Lippitz7 Pushing the Lever: Rule-Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Life is StrangePatrick Goritschnig8 Light My (Camp-)Fire: Affect and Incitement in FirewatchRené Reinhold SchalleggerCompassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal9 Representing Interpersonal Relationships in Videogame TermsSarah Faber10 Press X to recognize the Other’s Suffering: Compassion and Recognition in GamesVictor Navarro-Remesal and Ignacio BergillosLearning through Play11 Toward Engaging Educational Digital GamesStephen Mallory12 Serious Topics and Fun Games: ‘Hidden in the Zoo’Niklas Torstensson and Tarja Susi13 ‘You Can Deny Seriousness, but You Can’t Deny Play’: Emergent Resistance to Purposive GamesLuca MoriniIndex