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Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity, by Tom Tyler Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity by Tom Tyler. University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 224 pp./$100.00 (hb) ISBN 517910188; 248 pp./$25.00 (sb) ISBN 1517910196. Alenda Y. Chang Alenda Y. Chang Alenda Y. Chang is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (2019), develops environmentally informed frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2023) 50 (1): 68–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.68 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Alenda Y. Chang; Review: Game: Animals, Video Games, and Humanity, by Tom Tyler. Afterimage 1 March 2023; 50 (1): 68–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.68 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search “With their parallel lives, animals offer man a companionship which is different from any offered by human exchange. Different because it is a companionship offered to the loneliness of man as a species.”John Berger, “Why Look at Animals?”1 The summer of 2022 witnessed, by chance, the simultaneous release of two games featuring animal protagonists: Stray (2022), a postapocalyptic cyberpunk adventure in which players steer a cat who has fallen into a subterranean city populated by robots, and Endling: Extinction is Forever (2022), where players embody a fox mother trying to keep her kits alive in the wake of wildfire and anthropogenic environmental harms. Stray, in particular, seemed to tug a cultural heartstring, with scores of videos being shared across social media platforms featuring real cats (and dogs) watching their owners play the game.2 Actual cats watched, chirped, and sometimes smacked the orange tabby prowling across the... You do not currently have access to this content.
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