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"Few human pastimes absorb as much money and attention as games, and digital games alone engage more than two billion people worldwide. At the same time, the forms of experiment and behavior modification known as "gamification" have imposed unprecedented levels of competition, repetition, and quantification on daily life. Drawing from his own experience as a game designer, Patrick Jagoda shows that games need not be synonymous with gamification and reveals the ways in which experimental games can disrupt the logic of gamification itself. Games can, indeed, help us think beyond existing systems and intervene in neoliberal ideology from the inside out. Addressing game designers and new media artists as well as the growing field of game studies, Jagoda takes up a broad variety of games, including mainstream "AAA" games such "StarCraft,"widespread casual mobile games such as "Candy Crush Saga,"popular independent games such as "Stardew Valley,"formally experimental games such as "Luxuria Superbia,"and more personal auteur games such as "Dys4ia."He ranges over many genres including single-player, multi-player, and networked real-time strategy, platformers, simulators, first-person shooters, role-playing games, and puzzle games. The result is a game-changing book on the sociopolitical potential of this form of mass entertainment"--

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Ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides? Welcome to gamespace, the world in which we live. Where others argue obsessively over violence in games, Wark contends that digital computer games are our society's emergent cultural form, a utopian version of the world as it is. Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.

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"À la maison ou dans les transports, au bureau ou aux toilettes, les jeux vidéo sont partout. La banalisation de ce loisir électronique dans toutes les tranches d’âge et toutes les catégories de la société s’est accompagnée d’une diversification des publics mais aussi des manières de jouer. Loin de l’image caricaturale du mâle adolescent jouant des heures durant à des jeux de tir, désormais les jeux vidéo sont pour beaucoup une activité ordinaire qui trouve place dans les interstices, les temps libres des routines journalières ou hebdomadaires. Ils sont imbriqués dans les modes de vie et contribuent aux modes d’habiter. Fruit d’un travail de recherche collectif, ce livre analyse la place de ces pratiques vidéoludiques au quotidien. Comment joue-t-on aux jeux vidéo aujourd’hui? Qui joue, où, et avec qui ? Quelles sont les diverses pratiques, de sociabilité, d’échanges mais aussi de mobilités et de marquage de l’espace, qui se développent autour de ce loisir électronique ? Quelles sont les émotions, les expériences, les affects, que les jeux vidéo rendent possible ? Cette exploration inédite du domaine des jeux vidéo étudie la diversité de leurs publics, les pratiques que ces derniers développent, et les expériences qui s’y éprouvent."

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