[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: Video Game Monsters Edited Collection

The academic network MultiPlay is delighted to announce that we are 
working on a new edited collection – /Video Game Monsters: A Compendium. 
/Monsters have been the foundation of the video game industry. They’ve 
been the bosses to beat, the enemies to avoid, the NPCs we’ve sometimes 
forged unlikely bonds with. Monsters are the true avatar of video games, 
and there has been an increase of work and attention in this area, such 
as /Player v.s Monster /(Svelch, 2023). MultiPlay feels the time is 
right for a special collection examining monsters in all of their video 
game forms, creating a thorough compendium of the monstrous history of 
video games. As Martin points out, video games studies has barely began 
to reckon with monsters (2023, np)


MultiPlay is currently seeking abstracts for chapters for this 
collection. As ever, we have a list of prompts below but please feel 
free to send all your monstrous ideas to us.


Ideas for your consideration:

  * What makes a monster (boss)?
  * Monsters: friends, foe, the future of video games?
  * The overlooked werewolf
  * The avatar-player monster
  * The evolving history of video game monsters
  * Modern monsters
  * Monstrous borders and environments

Please send 200 word abstracts and 100 word author bios to 
(networkmultiplay /at/ gmail.com) by 5th of July 2024.

If you have any further questions then please email 
(networkmultiplay /at/ gmail.com).

References

Martin, P. (2023) ‘Review: Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking 
of Video Game Monstrosity’, in /Game Studies: The International Journal 
of Computer Game Research/, vol. 23, no. 3, December, [Online] Available 
from: https://gamestudies.org/2303/articles/martin_review_svelch 
<https://gamestudies.org/2303/articles/martin_review_svelch> [Accessed 
5th January 2024]

Švelch, J. (2023) /Player Vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video 
Game Monstrosity/. Cambridge: The MIT Press.




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