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An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion.Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experiences, from the serene exploration of beautifully rendered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challenges presented by strategic simulations to the adrenaline rush of competitive team-based shoot-outs. Digital games enable experiences that are considerably different from a reader's engagement with literature or a moviegoer's experience of a movie. In In-Game, Gordon Calleja examines what exactly it is that makes digital games so uniquely involving and offers a new, more precise, and game-specific formulation of this involvement. One of the most commonly yet vaguely deployed concepts in the industry and academia alike is immersion--a player's sensation of inhabiting the space represented onscreen. Overuse of this term has diminished its analytical value and confused its meaning, both in analysis and design. Rather than conceiving of immersion as a single experience, Calleja views it as blending different experiential phenomena afforded by involving gameplay. He proposes a framework (based on qualitative research) to describe these phenomena: the player involvement model. This model encompasses two constituent temporal phases--the macro, representing offline involvement, and the micro, representing moment-to-moment involvement during gameplay--as well as six dimensions of player involvement: kinesthetic, spatial, shared, narrative, affective, and ludic. The intensified and internalized experiential blend can culminate in incorporation--a concept that Calleja proposes as an alternative to the problematic immersion. Incorporation, he argues, is a more accurate metaphor, providing a robust foundation for future research and design.

Video games --- Video gamers --- Virtual reality --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology. --- GAME STUDIES/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Computerspiel. --- Immersion --- Psychologie. --- Tv-spel --- Videospiel. --- Virtuell verklighet --- Virtuelle Realität. --- Psykologiska aspekter.

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Außermusikalische Prinzipien des Spiels - freie wie streng regelbasierte - können Kompositionsprozesse, Aufführungssituationen oder Rezeptionsvorgänge prägen und bestehende Denkmuster aufbrechen. Daher hat der Spielbegriff als ästhetische Kategorie in den Künsten des 20. Jahrhunderts deutlich an Relevanz gewonnen und bis heute entstehen vielfältige kompositorische Konzepte, die Formen, Interaktionen und Oberflächen von analogen wie digitalen Spielen adaptieren. Die Beiträger*innen aus den Bereichen Komposition, Musik- und Kulturwissenschaft und Spieleentwicklung untersuchen markante Beispiele, in denen auf je eigene Weise Musik und Spiel als zwei eigenständig gewachsene Kulturformen zusammengeführt werden.

Musik; Spiel; Kultur; Computerspiel; Zeitgenössische Musik; Adaption; Ästhetik; Spielbegriff; Popkultur; Klang; Musikwissenschaft; Computerspiele; Kulturwissenschaft; Music; Play; Culture; Computer Game; Modern Music; Aesthetics; Concept of Play; Popular Culture; Sound; Musicology; Computer Games; Cultural Studies --- Adaption. --- Aesthetics. --- Computer Game. --- Computer Games. --- Concept of Play. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Modern Music. --- Musicology. --- Play. --- Popular Culture. --- Sound.