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Reading The Book of Joseph | 165www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 145–171 The Text-Immanent Communication After discussing the materiality of the different versions of The Book of Joseph, we can concentrate on the textual communication evoked by the book in the various discussed medial objects. The table above (fig. 16) shows the different communications for each of the four medial objects: Far Cry 5 and THE BAPTISM: The Avatar Character To start with Far Cry 5, let us first establish the text’s real author, i. e. the game’s development team, consisting of directors (Dan Hay and Patrik Methe), producers (Darryl Long), programmers (Cedric Decelle), artists (Jean-Alexis Doyon), writers (Drew Holmes, Dan Hay and Jean-Sebastien Decant), and the teams of co-workers they led and oversaw. The text-immanent author is not visible in-game, but functions nevertheless as a kind of invisible director, lead- ing the sequence of scenes as the player ventures through the game. The characters on the stage, the ones featured in the game, can be divided into two categories: the NPCs (“non playable characters”) and the player’s avatar. Not only are Joseph, Faith, Jerome, and Tracey, for example, characters in the game’s story, directed by the text-immanent author, but the player too is a character, or more precisely, the player’s avatar (in first-person perspec- Fig. 16: Table providing an overview of the different types of communication in game, trailer, and physical book.