First-Person Shooter Videogames

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-69145-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 206 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first-person shooter videogame genre. After providing an overview of the history of the first-person shooter videogame genre, Alberto Oya comments on the various defining peculiarities of this genre, namely the first-person perspective, the shooting gaming mechanics, the heroic in-game narrative or background story, and multiplayer gaming. Oya also argues that educators can use first-person shooter videogames to encourage their students to reflect on historical and philosophical issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oya, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 History of the First-Person Shooter Videogame Genre

3 “First-Person” in First-Person Shooter Videogames

4 “Shooting” in First-Person Shooter Videogames

5 The Heroic Narrative in First-Person Shooter Videogames

6 Multiplayer Gaming in First-Person Shooter Videogames

7 How to Take Pedagogical Advantage of a First-Person Shooter Videogame

Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto Oya, Ph.D. (2020), is a Research Fellow (Investigador Doutorado Contratado) at the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). He has published over thirty papers in professional philosophical peer-reviewed journals and he is the author of the monograph Unamuno's Religious Fictionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).