A Precarious Game : The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry /

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"This book reveals the unequal politics of game development as a dream job, which only privileged subjects can enjoy, while many others have to face significant social and individual costs"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bulut, Ergin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Ethnologie > Midwest (États-Unis)
Jeux video > Industrie > Aspect social > Midwest (États-Unis)
Developpeurs de jeux video > Satisfaction au travail > Midwest (États-Unis)
Jeux video > Industrie > Personnel > Satisfaction au travail > Midwest (États-Unis)
Ethnology > Middle West.
Video games industry > Social aspects > Middle West.
Video game designers > Job satisfaction > Middle West.
Video games industry > Employees > Job satisfaction > Middle West.
Middle West.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : for whom the love works in digital game production?
  • The unequal ludopolitical regime of game production : who can play, who has to work?
  • The end of the garage studio as a technomasculine space : financial security, streamlined creativity, and signs of friction
  • Gaming the city : how Studio Desire revitalized a downtown space in the Silicon Prairie
  • The production of communicative developers in the affective game studio
  • Reproducing technomasculinity : spouses' classed femininities and domestic labor
  • Game testers as precarious second-class citizens : degradation of fun, instrumentalization of play
  • Production error : layoffs hit the core creatives
  • Conclusion : reimagining labor and love in and beyond game production.

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