{"id":2643,"date":"2019-11-12T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:37:14","slug":"real-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2019\/11\/12\/real-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Real<\/a>Proud to announce Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames<\/a>\u00a0by Mia Consalvo and Christopher Paul.<\/p>\n

This is the 8th(!) book in the Playful Thinking series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In videogame criticism, the worst insult might be \u201cThat’s not a real game!\u201d For example, \u201cThat’s not a\u00a0real\u00a0game, it’s on Facebook!\u201d and \u201cThat’s not a\u00a0real\u00a0game, it’s a walking simulator!\u201d But how do people judge what is a real game and what is not\u2014what features establish a game’s\u00a0gameness? In this engaging book, Mia Consalvo and Christopher Paul examine the debates about the realness or not-realness of videogames and find that these discussions shape what games get made and who is invited to play them.<\/p>\n

Consalvo and Paul look at three main areas often viewed as determining a game’s legitimacy: the game’s pedigree (its developer), the content of the game itself, and the game’s payment structure. They find, among other things, that even developers with a track record are viewed with suspicion if their games are on suspect platforms. They investigate game elements that are potentially troublesome for a game’s gameness, including genres, visual aesthetics, platform, and perceived difficulty. And they explore payment models, particularly free-to-play\u2014held by some to be a marker of illegitimacy. Finally, they examine the debate around such so-called walking simulators as\u00a0Dear Esther\u00a0and\u00a0Gone Home. And finally, they consider what purpose is served by labeling certain games\u00a0\u201creal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proud to announce Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames\u00a0by Mia Consalvo and Christopher Paul. This is the 8th(!) book in the Playful Thinking series. How we talk about games as real or not-real, and how that shapes what games are made and who is invited to play them. In videogame criticism, … Continue reading “Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Videogames”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}