What is the Avatar? : : Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games. Revised and Commented Edition / / Rune Klevjer.

• VerfasserIn: Klevjer, Rune,
• MitwirkendeR: Günzel, Stephan,; Mersch, Dieter,; Sternagel, Jörg,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Game Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Opening remarks --; Preface to this edition --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: Simulations, games and make-believe --; Chapter 3: Computer game fiction --; Chapter 4: The model and the avatar --; Chapter 5: The simulator --; Chapter 6: The computer game avatar --; Chapter 7: 2D/3D --; Chapter 8: The avatarial camera --; Conclusion --; Tracing the Avatar. An Afterword --; Bibliography
• ISBN: 3839445795
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rune Klevjer.

What are the characteristic features of avatar-based singleplayer videogames, from Super Mario Bros. to Grand Theft Auto? Rune Klevjer examines this question with a particular focus on issues of fictionality and realism, and their relation to cinema and Virtual Reality. Through close-up analysis and philosophical discussion, Klevjer argues that avatar-based gaming is a distinctive and dominant form of virtual self-embodiment in digital culture. This book is a revised edition of Rune Klevjer's pioneering work from 2007, featuring a new introduction by the author and afterword by Stephan Günzel, Jörg Sternagel, and Dieter Mersch.