[Commlist] New book: Game: Animals, Videogames, and Humanity

*Game*

Animals, Videogames, and Humanity

*Tom Tyler***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781517910198/game/_*

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*A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can 
teach us about the other*

Video games conjure new worlds for those who play them, human or 
otherwise: they’ve been played by cats, orangutans, pigs, and penguins, 
and they let gamers experience life from the perspective of a pet dog, a 
predator or a prey animal, or even a pathogen. In /Game/, author Tom 
Tyler provides the first sustained consideration of video games and 
animals and demonstrates how thinking about animals and games together 
can prompt fresh thinking about both.

/Game/ comprises thirteen short essays, each of which examines a 
particular video game, franchise, aspect of gameplay, or production in 
which animals are featured, allowing us to reflect on conventional 
understandings of humans, animals, and the relationships between them. 
Tyler contemplates the significance of animals who insert themselves 
into video games, as protagonists, opponents, and brute resources, but 
also as ciphers, subjects, and subversive guides to new ways of 
thinking. These animals encourage us to reconsider how we understand 
games, contesting established ideas about winning and losing, difficulty 
settings, accessibility, playing badly, virtuality, vitality and 
vulnerability, and much more.

Written in a playful style, /Game/ draws from a dizzying array of 
sources, from children’s television, sitcoms, and regional newspapers to 
medieval fables, Shakespearean tragedy, and Edwardian comedy; from 
primatology, entomology, and hunting and fishing manuals to theological 
tracts and philosophical treatises. By examining video games through the 
lens of animals and animality, Tyler leads us to a greater humility 
regarding the nature and status of the human creature, and a greater 
sensitivity in dealings with other animals.

*Tom Tyler*is lecturer in digital culture at the University of Leeds. He 
is editor of /Animal Beings/, coeditor of /Animal Encounters/, and 
author of /CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers/(Minnesota, 2012).



*University of Minnesota Press**| May 2022 | 224pp | 9781517910198 | PB 
| £18.99**

*Price subject to change.

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