Index

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(2020), "Index", Coward-Gibbs, M. (Ed.) Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead (Emerald Studies in Death and Culture), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 209-216. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-037-020201006

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INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate footnotes.

Activism

, 163

Adipocere

, 163

Adult concerns

, 57

AdVenture Capitalist (Game)

, 19

Aesthetics, fashion and

, 162–166

Age of Fire

, 90

Agency

, 15, 147

Air to Fuels technology

, 13

Albion

, 44–45, 47

Altruistic suicides

, 193

Ambiguity

, 100

American culture

, 30

American Horror Story (television series)

, 115

American Journal of Play

, 2

‘Angel’s Egg’ (animated film)

, 86

Angst in music

, 190–191, 193–196, 199–201

Anomic suicides

, 196

Anthropocene

, 12

catastrophic effects

, 13

and solutions

, 14

Anthropology

, 127

Antigone (Sophocles)

, 42

Antlers band

, 191

Anxiety

, 199

Apex Legends

, 176

Aphorisms

, 119–120

Apocalypse (see also Gothic Post-Apocalypse)

, 145

apocalyptic frames

, 72

zombie

, 141

Aquamation

, 159

Ars Moriendi

, 60

Articulate undead in popular culture

, 115–117

aphorisms

, 119–120

dead in popular culture

, 111–113

Dead Like Me

, 118–119

The Fades

, 120–121

The Good Place

, 119

iZombie

, 117–118

Les Revenants

, 20

television

, 113–114

Artist-centred approaches

, 191

Artorias of the Abyss

, 86

‘Ashes of Ariandel’ DLC

, 89

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec, 17, 2018)

Assassin’s Creed: Origins

, 178

Authorship

, 128

Automatic-play

, 21

‘Baptism of fire’

, 87

Battleground missions

, 71

Bed of Chaos

, 87

Belonging

, 42

Beyond the Grave

, 86

Blizzard of Oz album (Osbourne)

, 190

Body composting

, 159

Bone Dog (Rohman, 57, 60–62, 2011)

Breathing Corpses

, 51

Burials

, 50

Butter off Dead

, 163

Call of Duty 2

, 70

Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? (Brailler)

, 146

‘Cannibalise’

, 140

Capitalism

, 113

Carbon dioxide (CO₂)

, 13–14

Carbon Engineering (Canadian company)

, 13–14

Carbon removal technology

, 13

Carnival

, 58, 60–62

Carnivalesque

, 60, 62, 161

Cautionary tales for Children (Belloc)

, 56–57

Cemeteries

, 1

Children

books on death for

, 56–58

death with

, 55–56

Clicker Heroes (Playsaurus, 19, 2014)

Climate change

, 13

Closer album (Curtis)

, 189–190

Cluedo

, 70

Collective intelligence

, 151

Common (Moore)

, 42–43, 45, 47–49

Community

, 133–134

Conservativism

, 13

Content creators

, 86

Continuing bonds’ theory

, 57

Convergence culture

, 140–141

Cookie Clicker (Game)

, 19

Copypastas

, 133–134

Corpse

, 42–43, 50–51

Corpse wax (see Adipocere)

Corvians

, 88

Couch-to-5k fitness programme

, 143

Cow Clicker (Bogost)

, 20

Creepiness

, 22

‘Creepypasta’

, 133–134

Crowdfunded memorialisation

, 181

crowdfunding platforms for game development

, 176–177

fun games

, 183–184

mechanisms of experience

, 178–181

memorialisation in digital gaming environments

, 174–176

Crowdfunding

, 6

‘Cult of death’

, 112

Culture

, 133

Curtis, Ian

, 189s

Cybernetics

, 16

Cyborg

, 15

Daisley, Bob

, 190

Dark Souls

, 29, 83, 89

interactive world

, 90

release of

, 85

series

, 86

Dark Souls III

, 87–89

Dark Souls trilogy (Theodorou)

, 4, 84

Darkest Dungeon’s

, 77–78

Darksign

, 84, 88

Dazed

, 159

Dead in popular culture

, 111

Dead Like Me

, 114, 117–119

Dead Swords band

, 191

Dear Grandma Bunny (Bruna)

, 56

Death & Culture Network

, 3

Death

, 2, 42, 57, 59, 70, 159

duality

, 99

studies

, 29

Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead

, 3

Death, Dying, and the Dead in Popular Culture

, 30

Death, Playfulness and Picture Books (Jackson)

, 4

Death in Modern Theatre (Curtin)

, 42

Death in Mordheim

, 74–77

Death in the Afternoon

, 165

‘Death Positive’ movement

, 28

Death Race (Game)

, 28, 31

Death with children

, 55–56

books on

, 56–58

death-positivity

, 164

lessons in

, 61–63

privatisation

, 1

Death-positive merchandise

, 162–163

Death-positivity movement

, 158–159

death and dark humour

, 159–162

fashion and aesthetics

, 162–166

language of Merry Rogue

, 166–169

Deathlings

, 5, 162, 168

Decomp’uccino

, 163

Delegated games

, 20–21

Demon’s Souls

, 83

Denial of Death, The (Becker)

, 28, 112

Depression in music industry

, 198–201

Der Groβmann

, 125

Dialogism

, 146, 160

Digital

culture

, 133

digital gaming environments, memorialisation in

, 174–176

games

, 15, 70

memorialisation

, 174

Direct Air Capture technology

, 13

DISRUPT Media (Thogmartin)

, 35

Divided spaces

, 99

Dog Heaven (Rylant)

, 57, 61–62

DOOM

, 28, 73

Downloadable content (DLC)

, 71

Dracula (Stoker)

, 113

Drama

, 52

Dramatis Persona

, 76

Drivatar system

, 21

Dualism

, 15

Durkheim, suicide, and popular music

, 193–198

Dying

, 159

in digital world

, 28–31

Ecological thinking

, 15–16

Edith Finch (Snyder)

, 96–97, 104

disposition

, 102

player of

, 97–98

structuring principle

, 97

Eerie

, 43

Egoistic-anomic suicide

, 200

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The

, 76

Embedded memorialisation

, 177

End of Life Option Act

, 159

Enter the Gungeon (Dodge Roll)

, 77–78

Entertainment

, 158, 163, 168

value

, 158

Entombed (game)

, 140

Episteme

, 202

Euthanasia Coaster

, 1

EverQuest (Verant Interactive and 989 Studios, 19, 1999)

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

, 96

Evil Within, The

, 76

Eyam (Hartley)

, 42–43, 45, 49–52

Facebook

, 174

Fades, The (British series)

, 120–121

Fallout 3

, 70

Fallout 4

, 174

Fallout 76 (Bethesda Game Studios, 17, 2018)

Family

, 96–106

Famitsu magazine

, 85

Fandom. com

, 32

Farmville

, 20

Fashion and aesthetics

, 162–166

Faux death

, 30

Fear Dubh

, 125

15 Times Pokémon Actually Died’ for ScreenRant (Baird)

, 31

Fighting Fantasy series

, 143

Filianore

, 86

First-person shooters (FPSs)

, 70

‘Floating in the Forth’ (song)

, 200

Folk horror

, 43, 48

Forza series

, 21

Frankenstein (Shelley)

, 113–114

Fred (Simmonds, 57, 59–61, 1987)

Freudian analysis

, 192

Frolics with Monsters

, 5

FromSoftware

, 85–86, 90–92

Funeral Direct

, 29

Furtive Pygmy

, 84–85, 90

GameFAQs forums

, 36

Games

actions

, 16

delegated

, 20–21

design

, 14

digital

, 15, 70

fun

, 183–184

idle

, 19–20

posthuman

, 14–17

posthumous

, 17–18

procedural

, 21–22

RPG

, 19

studies

, 15, 30

survival-horror

, 76

video

, 12–16, 18, 28, 73

zero player

, 18

Gamification

, 140–141

Gaming

encounters in gothic environments

, 4–5

experiences

, 175–176

‘Gamist’ attitude

, 144

Ghost cars

, 21

Glitch (Australian series)

, 120

Global warming

, 13

Gothic

, 96

fiction

, 98

gaming

, 96–98

interpellation

, 98–100

preoccupations

, 97

self-reflexive mediation

, 103

tradition

, 115

video games

, 84

Good Place, The

, 119

Gothic Post-Apocalypse

, 72–74

life and (permadeath) in Mordheim

, 74–77

Mordheim: City of the Damned (Factor)

, 70–72

‘Graveyard’

, 77

Graveyard Keeper

, 181

Greener death technologies

, 159

Grief

, 173

Guardian, The

, 159

Gundog (Longman)

, 47

Guru Meditation

, 20

Gym

, 35

Habituation

, 198

Half Life 2

, 73

Halloween (Carpenter)

, 100

Handbook of Death and Dying (Durkin)

, 30

Harvest (Bean)

, 47

Hello Games

, 21

High-stakes gamble

, 14

Hired swords

, 76n1, 78

History play

, 41–42

Home

, 104–106

Homo Ludens (Huzinga)

, 70

Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla)

, 4, 178

Horror videogames

, 98

Hospice album

, 191

Human culture

, 16

Humour

, 5, 159

I Choose You (Pokémon anime)

, 32

I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse (television game show)

, 140

Idle games

, 19–20

Idle Heroes

, 19

Immersion

, 143

In real life (IRL)

, 135

In The Flesh (television series)

, 117

In-character communication

, 130

Indiegogo

, 177

Instrumentalism

, 14, 16

Interactive affordances

, 99–100

Interactivity

, 15

Interpellation

, 97

Intruders

, 115

Involuntary park

, 18

iZombie

, 117

Japanese games

, 86

Jovial aesthetics

, 158

Jovial Aesthetics of the Death-Positivity Movement, The (Zibaite)

, 5

Joyboard

, 20

Just Cause 4 (action-adventure shooter)

, 176

Kickstarter

, 176

Knowledge communities

, 144

Land

, 42

Language of Merry Rogue

, 166–169

Last of Us, The (Naughty Dog)

, 18

Left Behind category

, 131, 132

anxiety of

, 134

Leisure

, 2–3

Les Revenants

, 120

Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment (Barr)

, 29

Life After People

, 18

Life in Mordheim

, 74–77

Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Nine)

, 181

Listener-centred approaches

, 191

Living and Dying in the City of the Damned (Stubbs)

, 4

Lola and the Rent-a-Cat (Jitta, 57, 60, 62–63, 2007)

Loot (Orton)

, 43

Loss

, 57

lessons in

, 61–63

Love, Death & Robots (Miller)

, 18

Loveplay (Buffini)

, 47

LSD

, 199

Ludification of culture

, 140–141

Ludo-Gothic

, 97

Luminosity (Stafford)

, 47

Magic and Loss (Fricke)

, 191

Magic circle

, 2

Magikarp Jump

, 32–33

Major Depressive Episode (MDE)

, 192

Maledictions

, 176

Map of Zombies, The (Thompson)

, 113

Marble Hornets (web series)

, 130, 134

Marie Claire

, 159

Masculinism

, 14

Mass Effect 2

, 70

Mass Effect 3

, 73

Massive multiplayer online (MMO)

, 21

gaming environments

, 176

Max Payne

, 76

Media reports

, 201

Memento mori

, 101, 164

Memorial add-on pledge

, 177

Memorial Wall

, 77

Memorialisation

, 174

in digital gaming environments

, 174–176

Micro-transactions

, 19

MMORPGs

, 35

prompts players

, 20

Monuments

, 88, 99

Moral occult

, 99

Mordheim: City of the Damned

, 4, 70–72

Mortal Combat and Duke Nukem

, 28

Mortician’s Tale, A (Laundry Bear Games)

, 28–30, 37, 158, 165–166, 181

Mortician’s Tale, That Dragon, Cancer, or What Remains of Edith Finch, A

, 37

Music

, 190, 201

Music-related suicides

, 192

Closer album

, 189–190

depression and suicide in music industry

, 198–201

Durkheim, suicide, and popular music

, 193–198

Werther effect

, 201

My Chemical Romance (MCR)

, 195

My Time at Portia (Pathea)

, 17

Narratives

, 84–88, 90

Netflix

, 18

News from Nowhere (Morris)

, 150

No Man’s Sky

, 21–22

Non-player character (NPC)

, 70, 86

Nonhuman games

, 3, 12

boys’ tools

, 13–14

delegated games

, 20–21

idle games

, 19–20

posthuman games

, 14–17

posthumous games

, 17–18

procedural games

, 21–22

Object of Possession

, 43–45

Online community

, 135

Order of the Good Death, The (Zibaite)

, 5, 158

Osbourne, Ozzy

, 190

Outlast

, 76

Participation

, 145

Patch

, 13

Peaceful in Death (Ruffino)

, 4

Pendant

, 85

Penelope Two album

, 191

Permadeath

, 70, 72–73

in Mordheim

, 74–77

and precarity

, 77–80

Photographic portraits

, 101

Photojournalists

, 2

Photojournalists

, 30

Picture books

, 56–58

examples of playfulness in

, 59–61

Play

, 2, 85, 96

Player-specific rewards

, 78

Playful realities

, 5–6

Playful zombies

, 141–143

Playfulness

, 57–59, 158

examples in picture books

, 59–61

Playing with understandings

, 3–4

Playwriting

, 44

PokéCommunity forums

, 35

Pokédeath

, 33–38

Pokémon

, 27

approaching Pokédeath

, 33–38

dying in digital world

, 28–31

life in shadow of Pokémon Tower

, 38

rangers

, 31–33

Pokémon anime

, 36

Pokémon Black (Game Freak)

, 38

Pokémon Black Version

, 36

Pokémon death

, 31

Pokémon Go (Game)

, 33–35

Pokémon Go Death Tracker

, 33–34

Pokémon Silver Version

, 33

Pokémon Tower

, 37

life in shadow of

, 38

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Let’s Go, Eevee

, 37

Pokémon: Magikarp Jump

, 32

‘Pokéstop’

, 35

Popular culture

, 30

Popular music

, 190–191

Durkheim, suicide, and

, 193–198

Porous

, 178

Post-Anthropocene

, 12

Post-script narratives

, 71

Posthuman games

, 14–17

Posthuman thought

, 13, 15

Posthumous games

, 17–18

Pre-script narratives

, 71

Precarity

, 77–80

Preserved rooms

, 99

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith)

, 143

Procedural games

, 21–22

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

, 12

Progress Quest (Fredericksen, 19, 2002)

Psychological theories

, 148

Purity and Danger

, 131

Pushing Daisies

, 117

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (British comedy-drama)

, 117

Random Number Generator (RNG)

, 75

Rangers

, 31–33

Rationality

, 14, 16

Real life (RL)

, 175

Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar San Diego, 17, 2018)

Relationship

, 192

‘Remains’

, 96–97

Repetition

, 101

Resident Evil (game)

, 140

Resurrection (US series)

, 120

Returned, The (US series)

, 120

‘Ringed City’

, 90

‘Rofflenet’

, 151

Roleplaying game (RPG)

, 71

Rosamilia, Alex

, 191

‘Rough Music’

, 48

RPG games

, 19

Rwandan genocide

, 44

Sad books

, 57

Saint George and the Dragon (Mullarkey)

, 47

Samaritans

, 192n1

Sanctuary (Gupta)

, 44

Santa Clarita Diet, The

, 113

Screeps (Game)

, 21

Second Life (SL)

, 175

Secret manuscripts

, 99

Sesame Street show

, 113

Shaun of the Dead

, 117

Shenmue (Game)

, 17–19

Shooting

guns

, 102

photographs

, 102

Shrines

, 99

Silberman, Peter

, 191

Simpsons, The (US cartoon)

, 3

Sims, The

, 70

Single-player campaign missions

, 71

Sixth mass extinction

, 12

Slender Man, The (Asimos)

, 5, 125

analysing

, 127–133

digital self

, 133–135

mythology

, 126–127

Slow Year: Game Poems, A

, 20

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory (Doughty)

, 38

Sniper Elite: V2

, 76

Social anxiety to gameful interactions

, 141–143

Social networking

, 174

Soil

, 42

Something Awful online forums

, 126, 127–128

Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe)

, 201

Spacewar!

, 28

Spatial model

, 97

Specters of Marx (Derrida)

, 119

Stained Class album

, 190

‘Staying Dead’ (Poore)

, 4

Streamers

, 86

‘Suburbia’s dead-end kids’

, 194

Succinctly deathpositivemovement

, 164

Suicidal for Life album

, 194

Suicide

, 192

Durkheim and popular music

, 193–198

in music industry

, 198–201

types

, 193

‘Suicide, Angst, and Popular Music’ (Partridge)

, 6

Sun Version

, 33

Super Mario Kart

, 178

Supernatural forces

, 99

Survival Guide

, 150

Survival-horror games

, 76

Syrian political crisis (2011)

, 14

Tales of the Crypt-styled comic book story

, 100

‘Teardrop shaped’ concentric loops

, 1

Technological solutionism

, 13–14

Television

, 99, 113–114

Temporality

, 47

Terror management theory

, 2

That Dragon, Cancer (game)

, 6, 29, 174

Theatre

, 42

3D environments

, 21

‘Times Pokemon Actually Died’

, 31

Tiny Bird Pokémon

, 32

‘Top Ten Anime Deaths’

, 31

Triadic model

, 131, 133

‘Trojan horse’

, 86

Tulpa Theory

, 129–130, 132

‘20 Surprisingly Dark Pokedex Entries from Pokemon Sun and Moon’ (Cooper)

, 31

Twitter

, 174

Universal Paperclips

, 20

Universal spectralization

, 103

Utility-oriented fiction

, 148–151

Veteran Skills system

, 78

Victoria (Greig)

, 42, 45–47

Video games

, 12–16, 18, 28, 73

Video-ludic Gothic–convergence culture

, 86

Virtual worlds

, 175

Vulnerability with purpose

, 183

Walking Dead, The (television series)

, 114, 140–141

Walking simulator

, 96

Warbands

, 71–72

Warm Bodies (film)

, 117

Warriors

, 75–76

Weirdness

, 22

Werther effect

, 201

Western Attitudes Towards Death

, 1

What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow)

, 5, 29, 96, 181

compulsions to repeat

, 100–102

gaming gothic

, 96–98

going home

, 104–106

gothic interpellation

, 98–100

Melancholia

, 102–104

mourning

, 102–104

Wicker Man, The (Seminal folk horror film)

, 43, 48

Wolfenstein 3D

, 28

World of Warcraft

, 35, 175–176

Xbox console

, 21

XCOM: Enemy Unknown’s (Firaxis Games, 77–78, 2012)

Yōkai

, 86

Yūrei

, 86

Zeitgeist

, 111

Zen of Zombies (book series)

, 114

Zero player games

, 18

‘Zobo codes’

, 151

Zombie

apocalypse

, 141

emergency

, 143

fandom

, 141

Zombie fiction

gamification, ludification and convergence culture

, 140–141

ironic survival(ist) horror

, 143

reader as player

, 145–148

social anxiety to gameful interactions

, 141–143

utility-oriented fiction

, 148–151

Zombie Survival Guide, The (Brooks)

, 140, 143

Zombies, Run! (fitness app)

, 140–141, 143, 148–151