Author: Geoff King
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Release Date: 2006
Book Size: 27.48 MB
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Tomb Raiders And Space Invaders

by Geoff King, Tomb Raiders And Space Invaders Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Tomb Raiders And Space Invaders book, The main focus of this book is on key formal aspects of games and the experiences and pleasures offered by the activities they require of the player. A wide range of games are considered, from first-person shooters to third-person action-adventures, strategy, sports-related and role-playing games. Issues examined in detail include the characteristics of gameplay and its relationship with narrative, genre, virtual landscapes, realism, spectacle and sensation.

Author: Amanda Phillips
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date: 2020-04-21
Book Size: 37.14 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Gamer Trouble

by Amanda Phillips, Gamer Trouble Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Gamer Trouble book, Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble, Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems. By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world.

Author: Barry Atkins
Publisher:
Release Date: 2007
Book Size: 68.59 MB
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Videogame Player Text

by Barry Atkins, Videogame Player Text Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Videogame Player Text book, Videogame, Player, Text examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. With essays from a range of internationally renowned game scholars, the major aim of this collection is to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each essay focuses on specific examples of gameplay dynamics to tease out the specificities of videogames as a new form of interaction between text and digital technology for the purposes of entertainment.

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Release Date: 2006
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
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Choice

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Author: Michael O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2008
Book Size: 62.82 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Media Society

by Michael O'Shaughnessy, Media Society Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Media Society book, Media and Society explores the media's influence in our world, providing a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and theories used in media studies. The fourth edition of this book continues to provide an accessible and student-friendly analysis of the relationship between media andsociety.

Author: Steven Poole
Publisher:
Release Date: 2000
Book Size: 50.19 MB
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Category : Computer art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Trigger Happy

by Steven Poole, Trigger Happy Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Trigger Happy book, A ground-breaking account of the cultural history and impact of videogames, from Pong and Space Invaders to Tomb Raider and Tekken.

Author: Austin Grossman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date: 2003
Book Size: 53.93 MB
Book Format: PDF
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Postmortems From Game Developer

by Austin Grossman, Postmortems From Game Developer Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Postmortems From Game Developer book, Explains how to manage projects in game production by examining the development process of actual games, covering startups, sequels, innovation, building on a license, and online gaming.

Author: Brad King
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Release Date: 2003
Book Size: 78.72 MB
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Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Dungeons And Dreamers

by Brad King, Dungeons And Dreamers Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Dungeons And Dreamers book, Presents a history of computer gaming, covering such topics as gaming culture and the transition from paper games to computer games, and includes profiles of gaming innovators, including Richard Garriott, Richard Bartle, and John Carmack.

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Release Date: 2003
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Category : Computer industry
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Bedford S Tech Edge

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Release Date: 2001
Book Size: 46.25 MB
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Category : Motion pictures
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The Spectator

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Author: François Dominic Laramée
Publisher: Charles River Media
Release Date: 2002
Book Size: 58.75 MB
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Game Design Perspectives

by François Dominic Laramée, Game Design Perspectives Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Game Design Perspectives book, Compiles articles by computer game designers sharing their experiences with game design, including discussion of topics such as documentation, user interfaces, quality management, platforms, and storytelling.

Author: Daniela Kloock
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Release Date: 2008
Book Size: 35.36 MB
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Category : Digital cinematography
Languages : de
Pages : 349
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Zukunft Kino

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