Games and Bereavement: How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief

How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by analyzing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for videogames to include grievers into game development. Overall, she explores how videogames can be used as a contemporary medium for personal storytelling.

• | Author: Sabine Harrer
• | Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3837644154
• | ISBN-13: 9783837644159