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What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- Computer Games. --- Culture. --- Digital Media. --- Game Design. --- Game Studies. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Popular Culture. --- Games; Game Studies; Game Design; Media; Culture; Popular Culture; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Digital Media; Media Studies

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Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish motivations in a dedicated space, a »Magic Circle«, whereas game mechanics are constructs of rules designed for interactions that provide gameplay. Those rules form the base for all the excitement and frustration we experience in games. This anthology contains individual essays by authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world.

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Als die Covid-19-Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 ausbrach, konnte die mediale Kommunikation an bereits vorhandenes Wissen, Narrative und ein Bilderreservoir anknüpfen, die aus der populärkulturellen Auseinandersetzung mit ansteckenden Krankheiten und Seuchenkatastrophen stammen: In zahllosen Comics, Spielfilmen, TV-Serien und digitalen Spielen werden bereits seit Jahrzehnten Diskurse von Ansteckung und Abschottung, von kollabierenden Gesundheitssystemen und gesellschaftlichen Ausnahmezuständen konstruiert, kommuniziert und konsumiert. Die Beiträger*innen bieten eine breit gefächerte aktuelle Topografie des popkulturellen Wissens um Pandemien in ihren medial-diskursiven Erscheinungsformen - und helfen so, das kulturelle Gedächtnis zum Thema zu bewahren.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Comic. --- Corona. --- Cultural Memory. --- Cultural Studies. --- Digital Media. --- Film. --- Health. --- Illness. --- Image. --- Media. --- Medicine. --- Periodicals. --- Popular Culture. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Tv.