The Fundamentals of Video Game Literacy Theory Practice and Aesthetics

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This book posits a novel framework for sense‑making and meaning‑making in the play of video games. Extending a modern process‑oriented audience‑inclusive philosophy of artistic meaning generation this book grapples with the question of how to personally and critically examine video games as artistic artifacts that do not have set predetermined standardized forms until live play is enacted. The resulting artistic product live gameplay expresses both the game’s developers and its players. This book argues that players hold three separate concurrent perspectives during play: the embodied avatar within the simulated space the role‑playing participant in the narrative fantasy and the external st…