In this paper I argue that achievement is a significant discourse in practice in videogame use. Drawing from Bauman’s (2001) discussion of an individualised society were progress is episodic and autonomous, and from phenomenological interviews with adult players I discuss how players use videogames to perform progress. The use of games as compensation for an otherwise unsatisfactory life reprod...

This paper deals with the question of relations between videogames and narrative. By reading many of the existing studies on this topic, opposite conclusions can be drawn about the link between interactivity and narrative. To help us clarify these opposite conclusions, we will first use a distinction between story and storytelling. We will then analyse a corpus of narrative videogames to identi...

This article investigates the relationship between young people’s game-making practices and meaning-making in videogames. By exploring two different games produced a club London through multimodal sociosemiotic approach, author discusses how semiotic resources modes were recruited by participants to realize discourses. employing concepts such as modality truth claims grammar, he examines these ...