Sustainable Play

Toward a New Games Movement for the Digital Age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2409364
AutoresCelia Pearce (0009-0005-5466-8190, Georgia Institute of Technology, autor de correspondencia), Tracy Fullerton (0000-0002-2382-8527, Southern California University for Professional Studies), Janine Fron, Jacquelyn Ford Morie (0000-0002-4934-4715, University of Southern California)
Año2007
Volumen2
Número3
Páginas261-278
Fecha de publicación2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGames and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1555-4120 • E-ISSN: 1555-4139
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1555412007304420
OpenAlexW2068841920
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas1

This article suggests a revisit of the New Games movement, formed by Stewart Brand and others in the early 1970s in the United States as a response to the Vietnam War, against a backdrop of dramatic social and economic change fueled by a looming energy crisis, civil rights, feminism, and unhealthy widespread drug abuse. Like-minded contemporaries R. Buckminster Fuller (World Game), Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), and Christo and Jean-Claude (Valley Curtain) responded in kind to these environmental and sociopolitical quandaries with their "earthworks." As digital game designers and theorists embark on developing new methods to address the creative crisis in mainstream game production, against a similar backdrop of global climate change, a controversial war, political upheaval, and complex gender issues, the authors propose a reexamination of the New Games movement and its methods as a means of constructing shared contexts for meaningful play in virtual and real-world spaces

Aesthetics · Art · Mainstream · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Educational Games and Gamification · Law