Traveling through Video Games

Tom van Nuenen

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Routledge
30 October 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Humanities; Media studies; Human geography; Digital animation

Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism, and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification.

Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies, the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Minecraft, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity, summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds, the elusive nature of freedom and control, and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptive—but through design choices, players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference between moving through a game world, and being moved by it.

This interdisciplinary and innovative study will interest students and scholars of digital media studies, game studies, tourism and technology, and the Digital Humanities.

By: Tom van Nuenen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9781032519487
ISBN 10: 1032519487
Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 30 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. It’s All Under Control 3. King of the Sandbox 4. Bigger on the Inside 5. You Can Stay Here 6. When Here Becomes There 7. Conclusion

Tom van Nuenen is a researcher and educator in data science and algorithmic culture. He works as a Lecturer and Assistant Project Scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

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Traveling through Video Games

Tom van Nuenen

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