Sabine Harrer
How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make difficult personal feelings tangible. After a brief literary review of grief concepts and videogame theory, the book deep-dives into examples of tragic inter-character relationships from videogame history. Building on these examples, the book presents a case study on pregnancy loss as a potential grief experience that can be validated through game design dialogue.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
English | Paperback | 9783837644159 | 2018 | 274 | |
English | eBook | 9783839444153 | 2018 | 274 |
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Authors/Narrators: #SabineHarrer
Publishers: #Transcript (Transcript Publishing)
Languages: #English
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Genres: #GameStudies #Psychology
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#Brothers (Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons)
#FinalFantasy (#FinalFantasyVII [Final Fantasy 7, FF7, FFVII, Final Fantasy VII])
#Ico (Ico)
#Jocoi (Jocoi)
#Passage (Passage)
#Shelter (Shelter)
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