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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Federal Ministry of Labour, Family and Youth -- University of Klagenfurt -- KPH Vienna/Krems -- Mixed Reality / Contributions to the 13th Future and Reality of Gaming Conference 2019 in Vienna -- Introduction to Mixed Reality and Games -- Mixed Reality / Design & Aesthetics -- An Introduction to Design & Aesthetics -- Warning: Not Suitable for Robots -- Game Engineering for Hybrid Board Games -- Creating Digital Gamebooks with Twine -- Strategy Games as Neoliberal Historiography -- The Flaneur in a Masticator -- Cortana: A Digital Personal Assistant between Space Opera and Speech Recognition -- Is This the Real Life? Is This just Fantasy? -- Mixed Reality / Society & Culture -- An Introduction to Society & Culture -- Players Unite Legally -- "As You Command" -- Gender Portrayals in Videogames -- Periphery: The Departure from Avatar-Sexual Characters in BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition -- When the Future Becomes the Present -- The Case of Pokémon GO or How an AR-Game Influences Our Lives -- Mixed Reality / Theory -- An Introduction to Theory -- Save Gamer -- Gotta Go Fast -- Mixed Reality Is Already There! -- Settlement of Digital Land -- Archaeology and Videogames -- An Introduction to Gambling in the Context of Game Studies

El Proyecto de Investigación 18.4 avanza sobre el estudio de las nuevas preguntas y viejas inquietudes acerca de los game studies. Cuando los game studies empezaron a delimitarse como campo de estudio a comienzos del nuevo milenio tuvieron que luchar por hacerse un lugar propio dentro de la academia. Dos décadas después, la producción académica del campo exhibe, por debajo de sus quiebres, debates y novedades más espectaculares, líneas de continuidad que señalan inquietudes e interrogantes que se perpetúan. Estas continuidades confirman que los game studies, al igual que muchos otros espacios y disciplinas, se consolidan en torno a un conjunto de reflexiones e intereses cuya reiteración acaba por conferirle al campo un rostro singular, una identidad propia.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prolog -- Playing, Making, Thinking Games -- I. Games -- Introduction -- 1. What is a Game? Systematic and Historical Approaches -- 2. Games in the Modern Era. A Short Media History -- 3. Procedural Turn (since the 1950s) -- 4. Hyperepic Turn (since the 1970s) -- 5. Hyperrealistic Turn (since the 1990s) At -- 6. The Double Alterity of Digital Games -- 7. A Look Ahead: Hyperimmersive Turn? -- Intermezzo: Game // Film -- Introduction -- 1. Game and Film -- 2. Audiovisual Rivalries -- 3. Modes of Audiovisual Storytelling -- II. Game Design -- Introduction -- 1. Analog Design -- 2. Digital Design -- 3. A Short History of Game Design -- 4. Areas of Games Design -- 5. Practices of Game Design -- III. Game Studies -- Introduction -- 1. Theories of Analog Games vs. Theories of Digital Games -- 2. The Schisms of Game Studies -- 3. Desideratum: Overcoming the Schisms -- 4. Perspectives of Research 1: Digital Games -- 5. Perspectives of Research 2: Serious Games -- Epilog -- Academization and Aesthetic Production -- Sources

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Federal Ministry of Labour, Family and Youth -- University of Klagenfurt -- KPH Vienna/Krems -- Mixed Reality | Contributions to the 13th Future and Reality of Gaming Conference 2019 in Vienna -- Introduction to Mixed Reality and Games -- Mixed Reality | Design & -- Aesthetics -- An Introduction to Design & -- Aesthetics -- Warning: Not Suitable for Robots -- Game Engineering for Hybrid Board Games -- Creating Digital Gamebooks with Twine -- Strategy Games as Neoliberal Historiography -- The Flaneur in a Masticator -- Cortana: A Digital Personal Assistant between Space Opera and Speech Recognition -- Is This the Real Life? Is This just Fantasy? -- Mixed Reality | Society & -- Culture -- An Introduction to Society & -- Culture -- Players Unite Legally -- "As You Command" -- Gender Portrayals in Videogames -- Periphery: The Departure from Avatar-Sexual Characters in BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition -- When the Future Becomes the Present -- The Case of Pokémon GO or How an AR-Game Influences Our Lives -- Mixed Reality | Theory -- An Introduction to Theory -- Save Gamer -- Gotta Go Fast -- Mixed Reality Is Already There! -- Settlement of Digital Land -- Archaeology and Videogames -- An Introduction to Gambling in the Context of Game Studies.

In the past decade, both English-language game studies about China and Chinese-language game studies in mainland China itself have grown both in size and intellectual cohesion. This essay is not so much a retrospect on the intellectual development of Chinese-language game studies in China nor English-language game studies on China, but the 'intellectual membrane' between them. As a result of continuous conversations with games scholars inside and outside of China in the past decade, this reflection is not necessarily directed at game studies but takes games scholarship as a prism into the various processes of knowledge production on China and in China – therefore the phenomenon discussed here is valuable to the intersecting fields of China studies and internet studies.

El juego, actividad lúdica inherente al ser humano, es fundamental para el desarrollo de las personas como elemento de exploración del mundo.

How did games rise to become the central audiovisual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new medium's social effects and cultural meaning develop?Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S. Freyermuth's introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analog and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies.With contributions by André Czauderna, Nathalie Pozzi and Eric Zimmerman.

Cuando los game studies empezaron a delimitarse como campo de estudio a comienzos del nuevo milenio tuvieron que luchar por hacerse un lugar propio dentro de la academia. Dos décadas después, la producción académica del campo exhibe, por debajo de sus quiebres, debates y novedades más espectaculares, líneas de continuidad que señalan inquietudes e interrogantes que se perpetúan. Estas continuidades confirman que los game studies, al igual que muchos otros espacios y disciplinas, se consolidan en torno a un conjunto de reflexiones e intereses cuya reiteración acaba por conferirle al campo un rostro singular, una identidad propia.

El Proyecto de Investigación 18.1 presenta e inaugura la investigación en el campo de los Game Studies en Latinoamérica. Propone en su recorrido un panorama exhaustivo y reflexivo que cubre los distintos ejes que se abordan por académicos, investigadores, artistas, desarrolladores y profesionales que desde distintas epistemologías llegan al mundo de los videojuegos. Se ha buscado trabajar y dar cuenta del amplio abanico de abordajes, cambios paradigmáticos y nuevos conceptos que están surgiendo hoy, cuando los videojuegos se ponen en relación con la sociedad. Se da cuenta así de las relaciones que se pueden establecer entre los videojuegos y las narrativas, las artes visuales y la música, la educación, la comunicación y las ciencias.

This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school children, asking to what extent games might afford their players impactful embodied experiences and ways of navigating complex systems of information and power. The case studies centre on the teaching of environmental humanities and digital literacy in a specifically Latin American context.

This article develops and critiques the concept of ludic cyborgism: the notion that playing videogames allows players a free, non-committal, yet strongly embodied pedagogical engagement with cyborg-being. The article argues that videogame play is a form of cyborgization—the act of becoming a metaphorical cyborg through participation in cybernetic feedback loops. Game Studies has so far neglected to deal with the historical and political implications of this cybernetic engagement, having chosen instead to focus on the supposedly educational and emancipatory aspects of the phenomenon. The history of videogames as simulations is intimately entangled with the development of training simulations in the military-entertainment complex of the late twentieth century United States (Crogan, 2011; Lenoir, 2000), and so what players are principally being taught through videogame play is how to operate military technologies like weapons targeting systems without critiquing the violent nature of those technologies. Moreover, the "cyborg-utopian" reading by game scholars of Donna Haraway's (1985/1991) "Cyborg Manifesto," which underlies most of the theoretical framework of ludic cyborgism, facilitates an uncritical understanding of cybernetic videogame play as an ideologically neutral phenomenon. If we wish to bring emancipatory movements into videogames, we should see the simulatory nature of videogames as an inherently conservative force with strong ties to military violence, imperialism, and economic injustice, meaning that these frameworks would require significant transformation in order to become neutral or progressive in any sense.