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Title: A Survey of First-person Shooters and their Avatars
Related: Game studies : the international journal of computer game research, Vol. 11, Issue 3, (2011),
Related: http://gamestudies.org/1103/articles/michael_hitchens
Publisher: IT University of Copenhagen
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Hitchens, Michael
Description: The First-Person Shooter (FPS) is a popular game form, with examples appearing on many different platforms. The genre has an almost two decade history and is represented by hundreds of commercial titles. While there has been extensive study of the FPS genre, this has tended to focus on particular games, or at best a limited set of examples. In order to provide a wider context for such work this paper surveys 566 separate FPS titles, across a range of platforms. The titles are compared by year of release, platform and game setting. Characteristics of avatars within the surveyed titles are also examined, including race, gender and background, and how these vary across platform and time. The analysis reveals definite trends, both historically and by platform.
Subject Keyword: First-person Shooter
Subject Keyword: Avatar
Subject Keyword: History
Subject Keyword: Statistical survey
Subject Keyword: Gender
Subject Keyword: Race
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Computing

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