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Wandering Games

By

Melissa Kagen

Melissa Kagen is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Interactive Media & Game Development program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a PhD from Stanford University and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13856.001.0001

ISBN electronic:

9780262370981

Publication date:

2022

Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Late Capitalism: Caring for Corpses in Return of the Obra Dinn
3. Romantic Precarity: Eastshade as a Fantasy of Work
4. Walking in Circles: Bodily Constraints in Ritual of the Moon
5. Traveling Through: Decentering the Explorer in 80 Days
6. Language Worlds: Empire and Undoing in Heaven’s Vault
7. After Life: Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part II
1. Postapocalyptic Pastorals
2. Endless Wandering
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Ludography
Filmography
Index

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