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Reading the game

Author(s): Piotr Sterczewski
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Computer games; procedural analysis; interpretaion; game studies

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the methodologies of game studies concerning the ideological aspect of computer games. Having briefly discussed the fundamental for the field of game studies the so-called “argument between the narratologists and the ludologists” the author moves on to describing the concept of the procedural rhetoric of Ian Bogost, which serves to investigate the semantic implications of the processes of representation in computer games. A sample analysis from the point of view of the procedural rhetoric is being offered on the example of the strategic and economic game Fate of the World.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 210-228
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish