Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games

Agata Waszkiewicz

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Delicious Pixels

Food in Video Games

Agata Waszkiewicz

Volume 6 in the series Video Games and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716603

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Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of communication and meaning-making. It aims at bringing the academic attention to digital food and to show how significant it became in the recent decades as, on the one hand, a world-building device, and, on the other, a crucial link between the in-game and out-of-game identities and experiences. This is done by examining specifically the examples of games in which food serves as the means of creating an intimate, cozy, and safe world and a close relationship between the players and the characters.

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Agata Waszkiewicz, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Feminist Food Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Ludic Food and Food Game Genres
Chapter 1. Playing with Ludic Food Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Gendered Food Practices in Cooking Games Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Chapter 3. Food Preferences and Food Choice in Veg*an Video Games Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Part 2: Cozy Cooking: Abundance, Safety, and the Aesthetic
Chapter 4. Three Tenets of Cozy Cooking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 5. Coffeehouses as the Spaces of Safety Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 6. The Aesthetic of Video Game Food Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Chapter 7. Lollipops and Popsicles: The Erotic Sensualities of Food Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 8. Non-Hegemonic Masculinities in Dating Simulators Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 9. The Hunger that Devours: the Representation of the Disordered Eating Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Concluding Thoughts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Ludography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of history, popular uses of history, and historiography; Game scholars, Game designers, students
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 183
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 11
Keywords: critical food studies; game studies; feminism; aesthetics

eBook

Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110716603

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110716474

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111353081