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68 – Švelch – Player vs Monster

Game Studies Study Buddies

CHAPTER

Exploring Video Game Monstrosities

This chapter delves into the book 'Player vs Monster' by Yarslob Felch, discussing the concept of video game monstrosities and their evolution in gaming culture. The hosts compare this book to others in the playful thinking series and touch on related topics like game piracy during the Cold War period in Czechoslovakia. The discussion also covers the author's research on monsters in video games, the player-monster interaction, and the aesthetic terms of sublime and contained monstrosity in analyzing monsters.

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