
Metareference in Videogames
Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 August 2025
- ISBN 9781032978949
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 Illustrations, black & white; 41 Halftones, black & white 700
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Short description:
Taking an original, in-depth approach, this book investigates the forms and functions of metareference in videogames. This book will appeal to videogame researchers and transmedial narratologists as well as to those interested in metaization in media and popular culture across disciplines.
MoreLong description:
Taking an original, in-depth approach, this book investigates the forms and functions of metareference in videogames.
Drawing on a rich body of research in game studies, transmedial narratology, and neighbouring disciplines, the author combines detailed close-reading style analyses of the indie games What Remains of Edith Finch, The Magic Circle and OneShot with a breadth of examples and systematic analyses that span multiple genres as well as several decades of videogaming. In doing so, the book maps different metareferential elements that can be found in videogames and proposes an original model for their analysis, while showcasing the complex interrelations among different metareferential elements in contemporary videogames.
This book will appeal to videogame researchers and transmedial narratologists as well as to those interested in metaization in media and popular culture across disciplines.
?This outstanding monograph develops a comprehensive conceptualization of metareference in videogames that systematically takes into account transmedial and medium-specific aspects, offering an impressively broad survey of the metareferential strategies that videogames use as well as a theoretically sophisticated model for the close analysis of videogame-specific forms and functions of metareference.?
- Professor Dr. Jan-Noël Thon, Osnabrück University, Germany
"Much has been written about self-reflexivity in games and other digital fictions, about anti-, meta- and paraludic forms and structures. Yet a full-fledged, systematic study on how games can break fourth walls, create metaleptic transgressions and more generally refer to, parody and problematize their own gameness has long been overdue. Krampe?s diligent work delights as much as it enlightens not only the critical, postmodern and/or scholarly reader/player in us, but indeed anyone wishing to understand the unique creative and literally game-changing affordances of a medium more often misunderstood for its apparently one-sided effects than appreciated for its ultimate complexity and innate, deep metareferentiality."
- Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin, Director of DAS|LAB, University of Regensburg
MoreTable of Contents:
1.Introduction
2.Between Game Studies and Transmedial Narratology: Understanding Videogames
3.Theorizing Metareference: Concepts, Definitions, Models
4.Metareferential Elements in Videogames: Proposal of an Analytical Model
5.Gameworld-Centred Forms of Metareference in What Remains of Edith Finch
6.System-Centred Forms of Metareference in The Magic Circle
7.Game-Transcending Metareference in OneShot
8.Conclusion