The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies

Mark J. P. Wolf is a Full Professor and Department Chair in the Communication Department at Concordia University, Wisconsin. His books include Abstracting Reality, The Medium of the Video Game, Virtual Morality, The Video Game Theory Reader, The Video Game Explosion, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni, Before the Crash, The Encyclopedia of Video Games, Building Imaginary Worlds, and Video Games Around the World. With Bernard Perron, he is the co-editor of the Landmark Video Game book series. Bernard Perron is a Full Professor of Cinema at the University of Montreal. His books include The Video Game Theory Reader, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, Horror Video Games, Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, Figures de Violence, Z pour Zombies, and The Archives: Post-Cinema and Video Game Between Memory and the Image of the Present. With Mark J. P. Wolf, he is the co-editor of Landmark Video Game book series.

TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS

1. Artifact (Olli Sotamaa)

2. Artificial Intelligence (Robin Johnson)

3. Controllers (Sheila C. Murphy)

4. Emulation (Simon Dor)

5. Interface (Vincent Mauger)

6. Platforms (Bobby Schweizer)

7. Resolution (Mark J. P. Wolf)

FORMAL ASPECTS

8. Art and Aesthetics (Grant Tavinor)

9. Color (Simon Niedenthal)

10. Conventions (Bernard Perron)

11. Design (Richard Rouse III)

12. Dimensionality (John Sharp)

13. Levels (Martin Picard)

14. Perspective (John Sharp)

15. Sound (Mark Grimshaw)

16. Worlds (Mark J. P. Wolf)

PLAYFULNESS ASPECTS

17. Casualness (Julia Raz)

18. Challenge (Robert Furze)

19. Cheating (Mia Consalvo)

20. Competition / Co-operation (Emma Witkowski)

21. Conflict (Marko Siitonen)

22. Interactivity (Lori Landay)

23. Ludology (Espen Aarseth)

24. Objectives (Louis-Martin Guay)

25. Players / Gamers (Frédéric Clément)

26. Repetition (Christopher Hanson)

27. Single-player / Multiplayer (Daniel Joseph & Lee Knuttila)

GENERIC ASPECTS

28. Action (Dominic Arsenault)

29. Adventure (Clara Fernandez-Vara)

30. Role-playing (Andrew Burn)

31. Shooting (Gerald Voorhees)

32. Simulation (Seth Giddings)

33. Sports Games (Andrew Baerg)

34. Strategy (Simon Dor)

CULTURAL ASPECTS

35. Convergence (Robert Alan Brookey)

36. Culture (Frans Mäyrä)

37. Cut-scenes (Rune Klevjer)

38. Death (Karin Wenz)

39. Education (Rick Ferdig)

40. Media Ecology (Kevin Schut)

41. Research (David Myers)

42. Retrogaming (Michael Thomasson)

43. Violence (Peter Krapp)

SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS

44. Characters (Jessica Aldred)

45. Community (Carly Kocurek)

46. Femininity (Carrie Heeter)

47. Masculinity (Michael Z. Newman & John Vanderhoef)

48. Performance (Michael Nitsche)

49. Race (Anna Everett)

50. Sociology (Andras Lukacs)

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS

51. Cognition (Andreas Gregerson)

52. Emergence (Joris Dormans)

53. Fiction (Grant Tavinor)

54. Ideology (Mark Hayse)

55. Immersion (Carl Therrien)

56. Meaning (Christopher A. Paul)

57. Ethics (Mark Hayse)

58. Narratology (Dominic Arsenault)

59. Ontology (Espen Aarseth)

60. Transcendence (Mark Hayse)