Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10430203" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10430203 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Px2aIMGYi0" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Px2aIMGYi0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15554120211034408" target="_blank" >10.1177/15554120211034408</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry
Original language description
Developer credit has been a contested issue in the video game industry since the 1970-80s, when Atari prevented its programmers from publicly claiming authorship for games they had developed. The negotiations over what constitutes a noteworthy contribution to video game development are ongoing and play out in the unregulated space of in-game credits. Here, some creators get top billing akin to film and television credits, while others struggle to be recognized for their work. By analyzing in-game credits of 100 contemporary games published between 2016 and 2020 and representing four major sectors of video game production (AAA, AA, indie, and freemium games as service), I identify recurrent patterns, such as opening credits, order, role descriptions (or lack thereof), and systematic credit omission, that both reinforce and subvert the notion of core development roles and above-the-line/below-the-line divisions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Games and Culture
ISSN
1555-4120
e-ISSN
1555-4139
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
374-398
UT code for WoS article
000679491100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85111669135