More than a game: the computer game as fictional form

Abstract

This was the first academic monograph to examine specific examples of computer games at any length and in any detail. It is interdisciplinary in drawing on a wide range of theoretical models from visual culture and narrative studies, and sets out a methodology for examining digital games that informs the wider research and practice outcomes of the Synergy Research Group at the University of Wales, Newport.

More than a game was the subject of a feature piece on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book programme on the 14th May 2003, and has been reviewed in Tekka, Media International Australia, Discourse, The European Legacy, Game-Research.com and Edge.

Chapter One of More than a game was translated into Italian and republished as "Amministrare il reale: per una letura di SimCity" in SimCity: Mappando le città virtuali, ed. and trans. Matteo Bittanti, Milan: Unicopli, 2004,156-73. [Chapter in edited collection]