The Player's Power to Change the Game

In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which players seize back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself.

Auteur

Anne-Marie Schleiner is an artist, a designer, and an instructor of communications and new media at the National University of Singapore.

Contenu

Introduction: The Player's Power to Change the Game 1. The Game vs. the Player 2. ChaptersChapter 1. Lightness of Digital Doll Play 1. The KiSS Doll 2. From Dolls to Avatars3. The Collaborative Unfolding Game4. Ludic Mutation vs. Ludic Stasis in M.M.O.R.P.G.s5. A Virtual Space of Appearance 6. Gender, Identity Play, and the Active Disclosure of the Who 7. Disembodied Sensual Pleasure 8. Beyond the Dollhouse Chapter 2. Modding: Cross-Over Mutation and Unwelcome Gifts 1. A Brief History of First Person Shooter Modding 2. Sandbox World-building, Interface Mods, and Expert Cheats 3. Artistic Noise in the System 4. Cross-Over Mutation of Play Material 5. Thieving Parasites 6. A Common Sphere of Gifted Games 7. Rejected Gifts Chapter 3. Activist Game Rhetoric: Clockwork Worlds, Broken Toys, and Harrowing Missions 1. The Toy World System2. Overseers of Toy World Operations3. The Ordinariness of Interactive Toy World Equipment4. Player vs. Game5. Harrowing Missions of Refugees6. Broken Toys and the No Play ImperativeChapter 4. City as Military Playground: Contested Urban Terrain 1. Military Playgrounds 2. Military Theories of Urban Occupation3. From Deadly Play to Administrators of Life 4. The Artist's Intervention as Situationist Game 5. Hacking the City 6. Contesting the Terrain7. Funny Resistance 8. Points of DétournementChapter 5. Toys of Biopolis1. Biopolitics, Apparatus, Gadget 2. The Biocontrol Society3. Augmented Urban Reality and Paidiaic Toys 4. A Children's BiopolisChapter 6. A Tactical Sketchbook for Ludic Mutation1. Tactic #1: Elude2. Tactic #2: Mutate from Within3. Tactic #3: The Broken Toy Tactic 4. Tactic #4: Artistic Hacktivism5. Tactic #5: Reprogrammable Toy GadgetryBibliographyIndex