The mod industries? The industrial logic of non-market game production

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This article seeks to make the relationship between non-market game developers (modders) and the game developer company explicit through game technology. It investigates a particular type of modding, i.e. total conversion mod teams, whose organization can be said to conform to the high-risk, technologically-advanced, capital-intensive, proprietary practice of the developer company. The notion 'proprietary experience' is applied to indicate an industrial logic underlying many mod projects. In addition to a particular user-driven mode of cultural production, mods as proprietary extensions build upon proprietary technology and are not simple redesigned games, because modders tend to follow a particular marketing and industrial discourse with corresponding industrial-like practices.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 177-195
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11(2)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: first-person shooter; game engine; proprietary experience; proprietary extension; total conversion modification;

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nieborg, David B. ; Graaf, Shenja van der
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407088331
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227472
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ