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Revue internationale et interdisciplinaire, Sciences du jeu a pour mission de développer la recherche en langue française sur le jeu, de lui donner une visibilité, de nourrir le dialogue entre les disciplines autour de cet objet, et de susciter des débats. Publiée par le laboratoire Experice de Paris 13, elle est ouverte à toutes les approches ou méthodes disciplinaires, portant sur tous les objets ludiques (dont, mais non exclusivement, les jeux vidéo), et a pour ambition de présenter des recherches issues de différents terrains concernant le jeu dans un sens large (objets, structures, situations, expériences, attitudes ludiques).

ludology --- game studies --- folkloristics --- leisure --- recreation

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Pen-and-paper role-playing games provide many opportunities for storytelling. This well-informed study takes an application-based approach to develop a narratology of pen-and-paper role-play that sheds light on both the communicative and ludic qualities of the object of study. Its narrative design creates potentials for literature pedagogy, which this volume discusses in connection with narratological modeling. Unter dem Begriff ‚Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel‘ oder ‚Tabletop-Rollenspiel‘ wird eine Form des Gesellschaftsspiels verstanden, in dem eine Gruppe von Spielenden unter Berücksichtigung eines Regelsystems die Rollen fiktionaler Figuren einnimmt, die innerhalb einer von ihnen erschaffenen fiktionalen Welt existieren und handeln. Aus der Verbindung dieser ludischen und fiktionalen Komponenten ergeben sich Potenziale für das Erzählen, die je nach Gruppenpräferenz und zugrundliegendem Spielsystem auf unterschiedliche Weise realisiert werden. Die vorliegende Studie liefert eine prozessorientierte Erzähltheorie des Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiels, die durch ihre umfassende theoretische Fundierung Anbindung an die klassische und postklassische Narratologie sowie zentrale ludonarratologische Arbeiten der Game Studies bietet. Entlang der Analyse aufgezeichneter Spielsitzungen und publizierter Spielmaterialien wird ein Erzählmodell entwickelt, das sowohl die Eigenschaften narrativer Kommunikation abbildet als auch zentrale Kategorien inhaltlicher und diskursiver Parameter aufgreift. Aus dieser Konzeption werden literaturvermittelnde Potenziale des Spiels abgeleitet, die den Blick für vielfältige empirische Settings öffnen.

Narrative theory. --- game studies. --- literary pedagogy. --- tabletop role-play.

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The avant-garde challenges or leads culture; it opens up or redefines art forms and our perception of the way the world works. In this book, Brian Schrank describes the ways that the avant-garde emerges through videogames. Just as impressionism or cubism created alternative ways of making and viewing paintings, Schrank argues, avant-garde videogames create alternate ways of making and playing games. A mainstream game channels players into a tightly closed circuit of play; an avant-garde game opens up that circuit, revealing (and reveling in) its own nature as a game. We can evaluate the avant-garde, Schrank argues, according to how it opens up the experience of games (formal art) or the experience of being in the world (political art). He shows that different artists use different strategies to achieve an avant-garde perspective. Some fixate on form, others on politics; some take radical positions, others more complicit ones. Schrank examines these strategies and the artists who deploy them, looking closely at four varieties of avant-garde games: radical formal, which breaks up the flow of the game so players can engage with its materiality, sensuality, and conventionality; radical political, which plays with art and politics as well as fictions and everyday life; complicit formal, which treats videogames as a resource (like any other art medium) for contemporary art; and complicit political, which uses populist methods to blend life, art, play, and reality -- as in alternate reality games, which adapt Situationist strategies for a mass audience.

Video games --- New media art. --- Design. --- Social aspects. --- Arts, Modern --- GAME STUDIES/Games & Culture --- GAME STUDIES/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- Computer games --- Design

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Si les rapports entre jeu vidéo et cinéma suscitent depuis longtemps l’intérêt des milieux académiques, les relations, échanges et points de passage entre le livre et le jeu vidéo constituent pour leur part un domaine de recherche toujours en friche. Pourtant, les interactions entre ces deux médias sont loin d’être des exceptions et les disciplines qui les étudient (les game studies et l’histoire du livre) sont connectées par une certaine affinité méthodologique : tous deux ont un fondement profondément interdisciplinaire ; tous deux rassemblent, autour d’un objet commun, des chercheurs issus d’horizons très différents. Cette parenté disciplinaire, ajoutée à la richesse des constants échanges entre livre et jeu vidéo, a encouragé la conception de cet ouvrage collectif consacré à la rencontre entre le médium vidéoludique et son voisin livresque.

Art --- Literary Theory & Criticism --- jeu vidéo --- game studies --- rapports intermédiatiques --- transmedia

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Characters are a vital aspect of today's transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined. This book introduces the dynamic game character, a type of game character with a development structure that consists of multiple outcomes in a game. Through their actions and choices, players can influence these game characters' identities and affect their possible destinies. Games subvert the idea that fictional persons must maintain a coherent identity. This book shows that dynamic game characters challenge strategies of top-down control through close readings of the Mass Effect series, Persona 5, Hades, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and more. It is directed to all scholars interested in the topics of transmedia storytelling, video games, characters, and Japanese narratology.

ART / Mixed Media. --- Dynamic Game Characters, transmedia practices, game studies, reader-response theory.