The Counterfeit Coin(English, Paperback, Goetz Christopher)

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The Counterfeit Coin(English, Paperback, Goetz Christopher) is written by Goetz Christopher and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978825501 (ISBN 10) and 9781978825505 (ISBN 13).

The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric-an internal mental image expressing the fulfillment of some wish-fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out. This book seeks to undo the monolith of commercial gaming by locating multiplicity and difference within fantasy itself. It introduces and tracks three broad fantasy traditions that dynamically connect apparently distinct strata of a game (story and play), that join games to other media, and that encircle players in pleasurable loops as they follow these connections.