Representing Conflicts in Games: Antagonism, Rivalry, and Competition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032285591 | 259 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
This book offers an overview of how conflicts are represented and enacted in games, in a variety of genres and game systems. Games are a cultural form apt at representing real world conflicts, and this edited volume highlights the intrinsic connection between games and conflict through a set of theoretical and empirical studies. It interrogates the nature and use of conflicts as a fundamental aspect of game design, and how a wide variety of conflicts can be represented in digital and analogue games.