CDN Lunch: Food in Video Games

About the book:

"Delicious Pixels: Food in Video Games introduces critical food studies to game scholarship, showing the unique ways in which food is utilized in both video game gameplay and narrative to show that food is never just food but rather a complex means of communication and meaning-making. It aims at bringing the academic attention to digital food and to show how significant it became in the recent decades as, on the one hand, a world-building device, and, on the other, a crucial link between the in-game and out-of-game identities and experiences. This is done by examining specifically the examples of games in which food serves as the means of creating an intimate, cozy, and safe world and a close relationship between the players and the characters."

Agata Waszkiewicz

Dr. Agata Waszkiewicz is a scholar at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. They are a video game researcher interested in metafictional and experimental video games. Furthermore, they research queer representation in video games and the ways in which games allow for the exploration of one’s identity.