EAN: 9783111281971

EXPRESSIVE SPACE - GREGORY WHISTANCE-SMITH KART...

Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment  offering new worlds to explore
and inhabit. Like buildings  cities  and gardens before them  these virtual environments
express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford.
Drawing on the emerging field of embodied cognition  this book explores the dynamic interplay
between mind  body  and environment that sits at the heart of spatial communication. To capture
the wide diversity of forms that spatial expression can take  the book builds a comparative
analysis of twelve video games across four types of space  spanning ones designed for
exploration and inhabitation  kinetic enjoyment  enacting a situated role  and enhancing
perception. Together  these diverse virtual environments suggest the many ways that video games
enhance and extend our embodied lives.

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