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Zusatztext This well-researched informative volume provides readers with an explanation and analysis of the relatively new phenomenon of user-generated content integrated into professional video game development. Banks (Queensland Univ. of Technology! Australia) describes an individual case study (Trainz) in great detail! offers more general perspectives of other companies and other games! and outlines the overall issues and problems with this practice. These include determining how player-developers can be recognized and renumerated for their contributions to a game and the difficulties of integrating relationships with large groups of external content creators with a core professional development team. Other sections of the book explore current academic and philosophical research in game theory and co-creation. The content is supported by citations from player-developers! descriptions of meetings that the author attended in person! and insights from industry professionals that validate and explicate the author's points. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates! graduate students! and researchers/faculty. Informationen zum Autor Dr John Banks is a senior lecturer (Head of Postgraduate Coursework Studies) and researcher in the Creative Industries faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He researches and publishes on co-creativity, innovation and social media in the creative industries, especially videogames and interactive entertainment. He has a special interest in organisational and workplace culture. His past decade of research on the topic of co-creativity in the videogames industry includes his recent publication Key Concepts in Creative Industries (2012) with John Hartley, Jason Potts, Stuart Cunningham, Terry Flew and Michael Keane. Co-creativity has become a significant cultural and economic phenomenon. Media consumers have become media producers. This book offers a rich description and analysis of the emerging participatory, co-creative relationships within the videogames industry. Banks discusses the challenges of incorporating these co-creative relationships into the development process. Drawing on a decade of research within the industry, the book gives us valuable insight into the continually changing and growing world of video games. Zusammenfassung This book draws from, and is supported by, a decade of ethnographic research undertaken with videogames development companies located in Australia and the USA. It explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Co-creating matters1. Situating Co-creativity2. Co-creative Technologies3. Co-creating Trainz 4. Co-creative Labour? (with Sal Humphreys)5. Co-creative Expertise6. Modeling Co-creativity: A Co-evolutionary approach (with Jason Potts)Conclusion: Crafting Co-creative Culture (in Conversation with Will Wright)NotesBibliographyIndex...
