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Zusatztext Reardon and Wright offer a comprehensive, compelling, and complex take on 3 love stories between digital role-playing game development companies and the fan-based communities they wooed with varying degrees of effectiveness. Technical Communication plays a prominent role in each of these love stories as the primary means by which developers and fans influenced one another in remarkably expansive co-creative game worlds, for better and for worse. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Reardon is Associate Professor of English at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, where he is the director of composition and English advisor. He teaches science fiction, fantasy literature, and courses in the teaching of reading and writing. Dan has published articles about digital games, higher education administration, and the teaching of reading and writing. David Wright is Associate Professor of Technical Communication at Missouri S&T, USA. His teaching and research interest include technology diffusion, digital communication, game studies, and usability studies. He has published articles on technical communication and digital communication. Vorwort An examination of three digital role-playing game companies—Bethesda, BioWare, and CD Projekt Red—to show how social media and interactive game design have encouraged digital game players to believe that they are, in effect, co-creators of digital games. Zusammenfassung With annual gross sales surpassing 100 billion U.S. dollars each of the last two years, the digital games industry may one day challenge theatrical-release movies as the highest-grossing entertainment media in the world. In their examination of the tremendous cultural influence of digital games, Daniel Reardon and David Wright analyze three companies that have shaped the industry: Bethesda, located in Rockville, Maryland, USA; BioWare in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and CD Projekt Red in Warsaw, Poland. Each company has used social media and technical content in the games to promote players’ belief that players control the companies’ game narratives. The result has been at times explosive, as empowered players often attempted to co-op the creative processes of games through discussion board forum demands, fund-raising campaigns to persuade companies to change or add game content, and modifications (“modding”) of the games through fan-created downloads. The result has changed the way we understand the interactive nature of digital games and the power of fan culture to shape those games. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForeword by Adam CrowleyIntroduction: RPGs and the Explosion of Technical Content1: Birth of the DRPG2: New Century, New Technologies, New Challenges3: Crowdsourcing -- The Game Changer4: At the Top of Their Games5: A Cocreative Game World, for Better or for Worse6: The Social Media Imperium7: Bigger, More, Better8: The Wheels Fall OffNotesIndex...
