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Author: Michał Mochocki ,
Paweł Schreiber ,
Jakub Majewski ,
Yaraslau I. Kot
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.616kg
ISBN: 9781032609676
ISBN 10: 1032609672
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 17 October 2024
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Michał Mochocki (PhD, Dr. habil.) works as an associate professor at the Faculty of History, University of Gdansk, Poland, and is the executive editor of the European Historical Game Studies journal. His primary research interests are historical role-playing games, which he examines from the angles of transmedia narratology and heritage studies. He has published a monograph Role-play as a Heritage Practice (Routledge, 2021), edited a special issue of Games and Culture (“Games with History and Heritage”, 17/2022) and a book Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games (Routledge, 2024), and co-edited a sibling volume Asian Histories and Heritages in Video Games (Routledge, forthcoming). Paweł Schreiber (PhD) works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Literature at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His main research interests include post-war British historical drama, interactive fiction, and video game narrative, with particular emphasis on the relationship between narrative and space. Apart from his academic interests, he has also done work in theatre criticism and game writing, and has curated several international festivals devoted to video games and digital culture in general. Jakub Majewski (PhD) holds the position of assistant professor in the Department of Game Studies and Digital Culture at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he teaches a range of subjects across game design, game writing, and game studies. His specific research interests are game narrative, worldbuilding and open-world role-playing games, history, culture, and cultural heritage in games, as well as the history of games as a medium. Outside of academia, he has over 20 years of experience in game development, working across many genres and platforms. He has published a range of articles and book chapters, and recently has co-edited the book Gaming and Gamers in Times of Pandemic (Bloomsbury, 2024). Yaraslau I. Kot (PhD, MPsych, LLM) has been a game designer and narrative designer since 1996. He is also a lecturer of Game Development Project at Tallinn University, of Storytelling and Story Design and Game Design at the University of Lower Silesia, SALT Fellow at the University of Gdansk, co-founder of EduHaven, and chair of BelGameDev. He is an associate editor of the European Historical Game Studies journal, an Academic Board member of Homo Ludens journal, and a peer reviewer of Simulation and Gaming.
