Video Game Narrative and Criticism: Playing the Story

The book provides a comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay - a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games.

Author: T. Thabet
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 03/04/2015
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781137525536

About the Author

Dr. Tamer Thabet presently leads an international research partnership between universities and private sector to explore new horizons in game design and content. His other publications deal with video games in the contexts of postmodernism and humanities, which appear in various academic journals in North and South America and Europe.