Nieborg, D.B. and Van der Graaf, Shenja (2008) The mod industries? The industrial logic of non-market game production. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11 (2). pp. 177-195. ISSN 1367-5494
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/11/2/177 |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Saga |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2014 14:59 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:27 |
| Projects: | FIR-HSG |
| Funders: | British Academy |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57284 |
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