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Gameplay in the "Zone of Becoming" : locating action in the computer game

  • Extending Alexander Galloway’s analysis of the action-image in videogames, this essay explores the concept in relation to its source: the analysis of cinema by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The applicability of the concept to videogames will, therefore, be considered through a comparison between the First Person Shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Andrey Tarkovsky’s film Stalker. This analysis will compellingly explore the nature of videogame-action, its relation to player-perceptions and its location within the machinic and ludic schema.

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Author details:Souvik Mukherjee
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24638
Publication type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Publication year:2008
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2008/12/23
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Künste und Medien
DDC classification:7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 70 Künste / 700 Künste; Bildende und angewandte Kunst
Collection(s):Universität Potsdam / Tagungsbände/Proceedings (nicht fortlaufend) / Conference Proceedings of The Philosophy of Computer Games 2008 / Action | Space
Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / DIGAREC Series, ISSN 1867-6227 / DIGAREC Series (2008) 01 / Action | Space
License (German):License LogoKeine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
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