Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship
showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to
show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of communication and
meaning-making. It aims at bringing the academic attention to digital food and to show how
significant it became in the recent decades as on the one hand a world-building device and
on the other a crucial link between the in-game and out-of-game identities and experiences.
This is done by examining specifically the examples of games in which food serves as the means
of creating an intimate cozy and safe world and a close relationship between the players and
the characters.
