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An Industry of Indies: The New Cultu...

Vanderhoef, John Robert, II.

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An Industry of Indies: The New Cultural Economy of Digital Game Production.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	An Industry of Indies: The New Cultural Economy of Digital Game Production./
作者:	Vanderhoef, John Robert, II.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	270 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05A(E).
標題:	Film studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10190949
ISBN:	9781369339956

An Industry of Indies: The New Cultural Economy of Digital Game Production.
Vanderhoef, John Robert, II.

An Industry of Indies: The New Cultural Economy of Digital Game Production. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 270 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016.

An Industry of Indies builds upon foundational questions concerned with the constitution, operations, changes, disruptions, and borders of the global digital games industry. Although scholars have engaged with the dynamics of the video game industry, few have analyzed the emergence of indie games over the last decade and the impact of these small games on the always already shifting terrain of this industry. During this period, the video game industry has been confronting a wave of changes wrought by continually emerging technologies, player expectations, and a generation of small game developers who have challenged particular industry practices and dogmas, even as they also provide value to the industry's largest video game publishers and platform holders. An Industry of Indies examines a range of independent, marginal, and alternative digital game production cultures across the globe, from commercial indie games to radical avant-garde games, and delineates the cultural and economic relationship of each to the global economy of digital game production and consumption.

ISBN: 9781369339956Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122736
Film studies.

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520 $a This dissertation argues that despite the desire for real subversion amongst various indie development communities, an underlying neoliberal logic drives many of their entrepreneurial business practices. Even as many commercial indie developers distinguish their workplace practices, design approaches, and development ethos from the mainstream, corporate industry, most still rely on the same ideologies of bootstrap individualism and free market politics that undergird the dominant industry. Furthermore, even those developers who distance themselves from the industry, usually accompanied by a feminist and/or Marxist critique of industry practices or output, necessarily have to rely on venture capital funded startup companies like Patreon in order to connect with their fans and earn a living within a capitalist system with which they disagree -- a sad irony not lost on them. Within this greater context, the indie developer becomes a point of struggle between notions of the counter-hegemonic creative artist and the idea of the success-driven technology startup company, with the concepts of passion, art, and sustainability suturing the two perspectives together.
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