Gamepaddle Video Games. Education. Empowerment. Michaela Anderle & Sebastian Ring (Ed.)

Michaela Anderle

Vienna, Austria, www.medienzentrum.at

Email: michaela.anderle@wienXtra.at

Twitter: @michianderle

Instagram: michaela.anderle

What makes your institution special?

The wienXtra-medienzentrum is a unique learning and experimental environment for media production. On the one hand the centre supports young people up to the age of 22 in their first media experiments, e.g. short films, photography etc. On the other hand the wienXtra-medienzentrum also offers services for youth workers and teachers who are doing media education. For both target groups the wienXtra-medienzentrum provides equipment rental, editing suits, workshops, advice and much more.

Action adventure, definitely! Talking to the right people at the right time to solve problems, or having hints for others to get over obstacles. Sometimes there are single-player jump-and-run passages on the way, but most of the time we’re playing in multiplayer-mode. 

Adventure! You have to handle a complex, multi-layered narration, fully packed with riddles, searching for objects of desire (finding them without cheating^^) accompanied by lots of characters helping you to get to the next level.

Austrian Players League (www.apl.at)

BuPP (www.bupp.at)

Game City (www.game-city.at)

Subotron (www.subotron.com)

SUPRO with the project Reflect and Act (www.supro.at)

wienXtra-spielebox (www.spielebox.at)

Which is the best literature to start (in your native language)?

Various inputs concerning games and gaming culture from different perspectives:

Mitgutsch, K. and H. Rosenstingl. (Eds.). (2008). Faszination Computerspielen. Theorie – Kultur – Erleben. Wien: Braumüller.

Vienna’s annual GamesConference, “Future and Reality of Gaming” (FROG)³⁸, offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, researchers and scholars from various other fields, education professionals, and gamers from around the world. Fortunately there are three books with lots of articles and text from the last Conferences:

Mitgutsch, K. and Ch. Klimmt, H. Rosenstingl. (Eds.). (2010). Exploring the Edges of Gaming. Proceedings of the Vienna Games Conference 2008-2009: Future and Reality of Gaming. Wien: Braumüller.

Swertz, Ch. and M. Wagner. (Eds.). (2010). Game Play Society. München: kopaed.

Mitgutsch, K. and H. Rosenstingl, J. Wimmer. (Eds.). (2012). Applied Playfulness. Proceedings of the Vienna Games Conference 2011: Future and Reality of Gaming. Wien: New Academic Press.

Mitgutsch, K., Huber, S., Wagner, M., Wimmer, J., & H. Rosenstingl. (Eds.). (2013). Context Matters! Exploring and Reframing Games in Context. Proceedings of the Vienna Games Conference 2013. Wien: New Academic Press.

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In my università, there are several research centres that are studying the media from different perspectives: educational, sociological, semiotic, social, and economic.

I think that the puzzle game and the city builder simulator game are the two genres of video games that represent my job in the best way. In the last years I like to play video games on my mobile devices (tablet and smartphone) instead of playing them only on pc or console.

I think that Valve's Portal 2, Monument Valley, Framed, Ubisoft's Valiant Hearts, Minecraft, and Stacking describe me, since I am a complex person that is difficult to understand.

In Italy there are different realities that deal with media on a different level and for different reasons. By reducing the scope to video games, unfortunately, it is possible to identify only the private institutions connected with the video games’ producers/distributors or single persons’ activities:

AESVI (Associazione Editori Software Videoludico Italiana): www.aesvi.it

Archivio Videoludico: www.cinetecadibologna.it/archivi/videoludico

ViGaMus (video game museum): www.vigamus.it

Which is the best literature to start (in your native language)?

Felini, D. (Ed.). (2012). Video Game Education. Milano: Unicopli.

Bittanti, M. (Ed.). (2004). Per una cultura dei videogames. Milano: Unicopli.

Bittanti, M. (Ed.). (2005). Gli strumenti del videogiocare. Milano: Unicopli.

Gee, J.P. (2013). Come un videogioco. Milano: Raffaello Cortina.

Anolli, L. & F. Mantovani. (2011). Come funziona la nostra mente. Bologna: Il Mulino.

McGonigal, J. (2011). La realtà in gioco. Milano: Apogeo.

Bartolomeo, A. & S. Caravit. (2005). Il bambino e i videogiochi. Napoli: Edizioni Carlo Amore.

Pecchinenda, G. (2010). Videogiochi e cultura della simulazione. Bari: Laterza.

Maietti, M. (2004). Semiotica dei videogiochi. Milano: Unicopli.

Loguidice, B. & M. Barton. (2009). Vintage Games. Milano: Edizioni Raganella.