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.

Object Details

• Extent: Seite(n): 177-195
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11(2)

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nieborg, David B. ; Graaf, Shenja van der
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2008

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407088331
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227472
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST