Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in game cafes, through casual games for regional and global causes like environmentalism, through piracy and cheats, via cultural localization, on their mobile phones, and through urban playful art in Latin America. This book offers a reorientation of perspective on the global developers who make games, as well as the players who consume games, while still acknowledging geographically distributed socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other inequities. Over the course of the inquiry, which includes a chapter dedicated to the cartography of the mobile augmented reality game Pokémon Go, the author develops a theoretical line of argument critically informed by gender studies and intersectionality, postcolonialism, geopolitics, and game studies, problematizing play as a diverse and contested transnational domain.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Transnational Play
- Section One: Reorienting Player Geographies
- 1. Tilting the Axis of Global Play: From East/West to South/North
- 2. Venues for Ludoliteracy:
Arcades, Game Cafes, and Street Pirates
- 3. The Free-to-play Time of Women in Brazil: Localized Mobile and Casual Games
- Section Two: Ludic Perspectives from South of the Border
- 4. Ludic Recycling in Latin American Art: From Remixing the City to Sampling Nature
- 5. The Geopolitics of Pokémon Go: Navigating Bordering Cities with a Mobile Augmented Reality Game Map
- Section Three: From Global to Local Game Development
- 6. The Absence of the Oppressor:
Games for Change and Californian Happiness Engineers
- 7. Game Studios in Southeast Asia:
From Outsourced to Culturally Customized Games
- Conclusion: Play Privilege
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
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