Ludo essay e ludofilia: <em>The Beginner's Guide</em> come ludographic essay

Riccardo Fassone

doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7912

Ludo Essay and Ludophilia: The Beginner's Guide as a Ludographic Essay

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Riccardo Fassone Università di Torino
Riccardo Fassone is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin. His research focuses on the history and theory of video games. He is the author of two books - Every Game is an Island (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Cinema and Videogames (Carocci, 2017) - and of various articles and essays. He has been a visiting researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a research fellow at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester (NY).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7912

Keywords:

ludographic, videography, autobiography, videogames, audiovisual essay

Abstract

The article proposes a systematization of the contemporary production of ludoessays, that is the non-fiction audiovisual reflexive works focusing on videogames or, in some cases, made through the videogame itself. Namely, the article individuates a continuity between the paratextual production practices on videogames and the contemporary developments of the audiovisual essay. Finally, the article proposes a case study on The Beginner's Guide, a videogame that seems to summarize and, at the same time, undermine some of the premises and implications of the ludographic practice.

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2018-07-12

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Fassone, R. (2018). Ludo Essay and Ludophilia: The Beginner’s Guide as a Ludographic Essay. Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 7(13), 67–76. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/7912

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No. 13 (2018)

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