Agency in and around videogames

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Agency in and around videogames

This thesis conceptualises player agency in avatar-based videogames as an affordance of game design (Gibson 1979). By examining how agency is discussed in different discourses surrounding videogames, such as those of game studies and game design, it puts forward a multidimensional heuristic framewor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bodi, Bettina
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2021
Subjects:	Agency videogames avatars textual analysis paratextual analysis
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64777/

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