Video Game Policy: Production, Distribution, and Consumption (Routledge Advances in Game Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138812420 ISBN 13: 9781138812420

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like. Contributors argue that digital games are not created nor consumed outside of the complex power relationships that dictate the full production and distribution cycles, and that we need to consider those relationships in order to effectively "read" and analyze digital games. Through examining a selection of policies, e.g. the Australian government’s refusal (until recently) to allow an R18 rating for digital games, Blizzard’s policy in regards to intellectual property, Electronic Arts’ corporate policy for downloadable content (DLC), they show how policy, that is to say the rules governing the production, distribution and consumption of digital games, has a tangible effect upon our understanding of the digital game medium.

About this title

About the Author

Steven Conway is a convenor and lecturer in the area of Games & Interactivity at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Jennifer deWinter is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and faculty in the Interactive Media and Game Design program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138812420
• ISBN 13: 9781138812420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Conway Steven, DeWinter Jennifer