Kill the Overseer! : The Gamification of Slave Resistance
Profiles and problematizes digital games that depict Atlantic slavery and "gamify" slave resistance. In videogames emphasizing plantation labor, the player may choose to commit small acts of resistance like tool-breaking or working slowly. Others dramatically stage the slave's choice...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Minneapolis : : University of Minnesota Press,, 2020. ©2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forerunners: Ideas First
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource 103 p..) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Videogames as Commemoration
- Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman
- Paths to Freedom
- A Close Playing: Flight to Freedom
- "Make History Yours": An Introduction to Assassin's Creed
- Avatar Trouble and Aveline
- Untranslated
- Failure and Freedom Cry
- A Digital Fragment
- Untitled
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author