{"id":333,"date":"2013-11-18T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2013-11-18T15:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T22:07:32","slug":"just-released-the-game-culture-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Just released: <em>The Game Culture Reader<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though it&#8217;s a bit hard to find at the moment (Amazon is really treating this book a little <em>too<\/em> exclusively), <em>The Game Culture Reader<\/em> is now available! \u00a0I&#8217;m delighted my essay, &#8220;Movies in the Gameworld: Revisiting the Video Game Cutscene and its Temporal Implications,&#8221; appears in its pages among such an august collection of video game scholarship. A special thanks to editors Jason Thompson and Marc Ouellette, who braved the vagaries of publishing like polar explorers to bring us this little gem of a book.\u00a0It can be ordered directly from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-s-p.org\/flyers\/The-Game-Culture-Reader1-4438-4094-7.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Scholars Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #df0000; line-height: 23px; font-size: 14px;\" href=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/9781443840941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-335\" alt=\"9781443840941\" src=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/9781443840941.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">My chapter grapples with the problem of time in video games, especially as the various (and often incompatible) timeframes found in games become further perturbed by cinematic cutscenes&#8211;a &#8220;film time&#8221; that can steal temporal and interactive coherence from the game in favor of narrative drive, cinematic spectacle, and other potent but problematic &#8220;benefits.&#8221; However, as I find in analyzing combat cutscenes during <\/span><em>Fallout 3<\/em><span style=\"color: #444444;\">&#8211;insights occasioned by the game&#8217;s frequent glitches during those very cutscences&#8211;<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;\">the movies we find in the gameworld can actually serve a salutary function, restoring temporal order and reinforcing player-world coherence. This doesn&#8217;t make me a fan of the current trend in big-budget games to indulge in gratuitous cinema envy, but if nothing else my analysis reminds me that even bad tendencies have good applications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it&#8217;s a bit hard to find at the moment (Amazon is really treating this book a little too exclusively), The Game Culture Reader is now available! \u00a0I&#8217;m delighted my essay, &#8220;Movies in the Gameworld: Revisiting the Video Game Cutscene &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/?p=333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erraticplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}