Wandering games / / Melissa Kagen.

• Superior document: The MIT Press
• VerfasserIn: Kagen, Melissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2022]
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The MIT Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)

"In an increasingly hectic world, walking simulators provide a chance for a meditative online experience. Wandering Games will be the first book to explore this genre"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Work -- Gender -- Colonialism -- Death -- Subversive Walks -- Pedestrian Performance -- Digressive Literature -- Walking in Games -- 2. Late Capitalism: Caring for Corpses in Return of the Obra Dinn -- An Archive of Corpses -- Death and Its Aftermath -- Rendering the "Moment" -- Late Capitalism -- 3. Romantic Precarity: Eastshade as a Fantasy of Work -- Romantic Wandering -- A Labor of Love -- Playing with Precarity -- 4. Walking in Circles: Bodily Constraints in Ritual of the Moon -- Women in Space -- Temporalities under Constraint -- Wandering Wombs -- 5. Traveling Through: Decentering the Explorer in 80 Days -- The Politics of Empty Space -- Traveling Through -- Turning Space into Time -- 6. Language Worlds: Empire and Undoing in Heaven's Vault -- Worlds Made of Words -- Language of Empire -- Decolonial Digressions -- 7. After Life: Death Stranding and The Last of Us Part II -- Postapocalyptic Pastorals -- Endless Wandering -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ludography -- Filmography -- Index.