A Precarious Game : The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry / / Ergin Bulut.
"This book reveals the unequal politics of game development as a dream job, which only privileged subjects can enjoy, while many others have to face significant social and individual costs"---
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Bulut, Ergin, author. A Precarious Game The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry / Ergin Bulut. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020 ©2020. 1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the city : how Studio Desire revitalized a downtown space in the Silicon Prairie -- The production of communicative developers in the affective game studio -- Reproducing technomasculinity : spouses' classed femininities and domestic labor -- Game testers as precarious second-class citizens : degradation of fun, instrumentalization of play -- Production error : layoffs hit the core creatives -- Conclusion : reimagining labor and love in and beyond game production. "This book reveals the unequal politics of game development as a dream job, which only privileged subjects can enjoy, while many others have to face significant social and individual costs"--- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. CC BY-NC-ND Ethnology Middle West. Video games industry Social aspects Middle West. Video game designers Job satisfaction Middle West. Video games industry Employees Job satisfaction Middle West. video games, labor studies, e-sports, game development, gender inequality. 1-5017-4655-3 1-5017-4652-9 |
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Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production? -- The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work? -- The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction -- Gaming the city : how Studio Desire revitalized a downtown space in the Silicon Prairie -- The production of communicative developers in the affective game studio -- Reproducing technomasculinity : spouses' classed femininities and domestic labor -- Game testers as precarious second-class citizens : degradation of fun, instrumentalization of play -- Production error : layoffs hit the core creatives -- Conclusion : reimagining labor and love in and beyond game production. |
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