Bettina Bódi

Biographic Data

ID9178296
NAMEBettina Bódi
GIVEN NAMESBettina
FAMILY NAMEBódi
SIGNATUREBÓDI B
AFFILIATIONSDe Montfort University
ORCID0000-0003-1236-3610
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Videogames and Agency

    Open AccessBettina BódiBOOKVideogames and Agency2022

    Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How do paratextual materials reflect design intention with r…

  • Playing stories

    Open AccessBettina Bódi, Jan-Noël ThonARTICLEFrontiers of Narrative Studies2020

    Drawing on Janet Murray (1997), Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (2004), and other previous proposals, this article conceptualizes player agency as the possibility space for “meaningful” choice expressed via player action that translates into avatar action, afforded and constrained by a videogame’s design. It further distinguishes between four core dimensions of agency thus conceptualized: First, spatial-explorative agency is afforded by those elem…