A precarious game: the illusion of dream jobs in the video game industry
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Ithaca ; London
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2020
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Contents Preface Acknowledgments ix xi Introduction: For Whom the Love Works in Video Game Production? l 1. The Unequal Ludopolitical Regime of Game Production: Who Can Play, Who Has to Work? 2. The End of the Garage Studio as a Technomasculine Space: Financial Security, Streamlined Creativity, and Signs of Friction 30 54 3. Gaming the City: How a Game Studio Revitalized a Downtown Space in the Silicon Prairie 73 4. The Production of Communicative Developers in the Affective Game Studio 89 5. Reproducing Technomasculinity: Spouses’ Classed Femininities and Domestic Labor 105 6. Game Testers as Precarious Second-Class Citizens: Degradation of Fun, Instrumentalization of Play 122 7. Production Error: Layoffs Hit the Core Creatives 141 Conclusion: Reimagining Labor and Love in and beyond Game Production 159 Notes References Index 175 181 197
A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The de velopers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the pas sion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of em ployment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics. |
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Contents Preface Acknowledgments ix xi Introduction: For Whom the Love Works in Video Game Production? l 1. The Unequal Ludopolitical Regime of Game Production: Who Can Play, Who Has to Work? 2. The End of the Garage Studio as a Technomasculine Space: Financial Security, Streamlined Creativity, and Signs of Friction 30 54 3. Gaming the City: How a Game Studio Revitalized a Downtown Space in the Silicon Prairie 73 4. The Production of Communicative Developers in the Affective Game Studio 89 5. Reproducing Technomasculinity: Spouses’ Classed Femininities and Domestic Labor 105 6. Game Testers as Precarious Second-Class Citizens: Degradation of Fun, Instrumentalization of Play 122 7. Production Error: Layoffs Hit the Core Creatives 141 Conclusion: Reimagining Labor and Love in and beyond Game Production 159 Notes References Index 175 181 197
A Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The de velopers that Ergin Bulut researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the U.S. loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the pas sion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. A Precarious Game explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. Bulut argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of em ployment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As Bulut demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics. |
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