Paratextualizing Games

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His research interests include game studies, inter-and transmediality, television series, and participatory cultures. Gundolf S. Freyermuth (Prof. Dr.) is a professor of media and game studies and a founding director of the Cologne Game Lab at TH Köln -University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. He also teaches comparative media studies at the ifs international film school Cologne. His research interests include digital games, audiovisuality, transmediality, and network culture. Hanns Christian Schmidt (Prof. Dr.) is a professor of Game Design at Macromedia University (Cologne) and reseach assistant at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre of the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 11 Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Cologne, and Electronic Arts Germany. Our sincerest thanks go to these institutions and companies.Both, the Game Studies Summit "Paratextualzing Games" and this volume, were planned and organized by Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, and Hanns Christian Schmidt. The summit owes much of its success to the extraordinary staff of the Clash of Realities conference, in particular, Judith