From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: post-escapism: a new discourse on video game culture / Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson --
Advent / Leigh Alexander --
Bow, nigger / Ian Shanahan --
Love, twine, and the end of the world / Anna Anthropy --
The natural: the parameters of afro / Evan Narcisse --
What it feels like to play the bad guy / Hussein Ibrahim --
A game I had to make / Zoe Quinn --
Your humanity is another castle: terror dreams and the harassment of women / Anita Sarkeesian & Katherine Cross --
The end of gamers / Dan Golding --
The joy of virtual violence / Cara Ellison & Brendan Keogh --
The squalid grace of Flappy Bird / Ian Bogost --
The making of Dust: architecture and the art of level design / David Johnston --
Game over? A cold war kid reflects on apocalyptic video games / William Knoblauch --
Ludus interruptus: video games and sexuality / Merritt Kopas --
The God in the machine: occultism, demiurgic theology, and gnostic self-knowledge in Japanese video games / Ola Wikander.