@book{Blom2023,

title = {Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling: The Dynamic Game Character},

author = {Joleen Blom },

url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553495

},

doi = {10.1515/9789048553495},

isbn = {9789048553495},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-30},

urldate = {2023-10-30},

volume = {9},

publisher = {Amsterdam University Press},

series = {Games and Play},

abstract = {Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are constantly produced and re-imagined.



This book introduces the dynamic game character, a type of game character with a development structure that consists of multiple outcomes in a game. Through their actions and choices, players can influence these game characters’ identities and affect their possible destinies.



Games subvert the idea that fictional persons must maintain a coherent identity. This book shows that dynamic game characters challenge strategies of top-down control through close readings of the Mass Effect series, Persona 5, Hades, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and more. It is directed to all scholars interested in the topics of transmedia storytelling, video games, characters, and Japanese narratology.},

keywords = {Close reading, Dynamic game character, Japanese narratology, Transmedia storytelling, Video game characters},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {book}

}