Games and bereavement : : how video games represent attachment, loss, and grief / / Sabine Harrer.
How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make difficul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edition Medienwissenschaft
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Credits 7 Introduction 9 1.1 Videogame Representation 23 1.2 Understanding Bereavement 45 2.1 Of Limit Breaks and Ghost Glitches: Losing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII 69 2.2 "You Were There": Losing Yorda in Ico 85 2.3 Conjugal Love: Losing the Spouse in Passage 105 2.4 Losing Big Brother in Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons 121 2.5 "Let's All Be Good Mothers OK": Losing the Badger Cubs in Shelter 143 2.6 Designing for Loss and Grief: A Summary 161 3.1 Grief-Based Game Design: A Case Study on Pregnancy Loss 181 3.2 Ideation with the Bereaved: The Trauerspiel Workshop 193 3.3 Designing Jocoi: A Game about Pregnancy Loss 219 3.4 On the Question of Impact: Evaluating Jocoi 239 Making Space for Grief: Conclusive Thoughts 253 References 261