What is the Avatar?: Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games (Game Studies)

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.

• | Author: Rune Klevjer
• | Publisher: transcript publishing
• | Publication Date: Nov 29, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3837645797
• | ISBN-13: 9783837645798