Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Developer Credit: Para-Industrial Hierarchies of In-Game Credit Attribution in the Video Game Industry

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Games and Culture

ISSN

1555-4120

e-ISSN

1555-4139

Svazek periodika

17

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

374-398

Kód UT WoS článku

000679491100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85111669135