by Mark J. P. Wolf
about Mark J. P. Wolf
Mark J. P. Wolf is a professor in the Communication Department at Concordia University Wisconsin. He has written extensively about video games, publishing over a dozen books. His recent works on video games include The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, LEGO Studies, Video Games Around the World, the four-volume Video Games and Gaming Culture, and Video Games FAQ.
BioShock Infinite
Abstract: World-building and environmental storytelling are critically important design strategies for creating product differentiation in a gaming marketplace that is saturated with first-person shooters. In granting players the freedom to explore an immersive and richly textured America that never was, Mark J. P. Wolf argues that BioShock Infinite invites players to consider how this alternative, fictional world reveals certain truths about our own reality.