The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games, Juul Jesper

Автор: Juul Jesper
Название: A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
ISBN: 0262517396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262517393
Издательство: MIT Press
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How casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games.

We used to think that video games were mostly for young men, but with the success of the Nintendo Wii, and the proliferation of games in browsers, cell phone games, and social games video games changed changed fundamentally in the years from 2000 to 2010. These new casual games are now played by men and women, young and old. Players need not possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.

With this reinvention of video games, the game industry reconnects with a general audience. Many of today's casual game players once enjoyed Pac-Man, Tetris, and other early games, only to drop out when video games became more time-consuming and complex. Juul shows that it is only by understanding what a game requires of players, what players bring to a game, how the game industry works, and how video games have developed historically that we can understand what makes video games fun and why we choose to play (or not to play) them.

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Автор: Wolf Mark J. P.
Название: Video Games Around the World
ISBN: 0262527162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262527163
Издательство: MIT Press
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Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.

Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and culture across every continent, with essays covering areas as disparate and far-flung as Argentina and Thailand, Hungary and Indonesia, Iran and Ireland. Most of the essays are written by natives of the countries they discuss, many of them game designers and founders of game companies, offering distinctively firsthand perspectives. Some of these national histories appear for the first time in English, and some for the first time in any language.

Readers will learn, for example, about the rapid growth of mobile games in Africa; how a meat-packing company held the rights to import the Atari VCS 2600 into Mexico; and how the Indonesian MMORPG Nusantara Online reflects that country's cultural history and folklore. Every country or region's unique conditions provide the context that shapes its national industry; for example, the long history of computer science in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia, the problems of piracy in China, the PC Bangs of South Korea, or the Dutch industry's emphasis on serious games. As these essays demonstrate, local innovation and diversification thrive alongside productions and corporations with global aspirations.

Africa - Arab World - Argentina - Australia - Austria - Brazil - Canada - China - Colombia - Czech Republic - Finland - France - Germany - Hong Kong - Hungary - India - Indonesia - Iran - Ireland - Italy - Japan - Mexico - The Netherlands - New Zealand - Peru - Poland - Portugal - Russia - Scandinavia - Singapore - South Korea - Spain - Switzerland - Thailand - Turkey - United Kingdom - United States of America - Uruguay - Venezuela

Автор: Tringham
Название: Science Fiction Video Games
ISBN: 148220388X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781482203882
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Understand Video Games as Works of Science Fiction and Interactive Stories Science Fiction Video Games focuses on games that are part of the science fiction genre, rather than set in magical milieux or exaggerated versions of our own world. Unlike many existing books and websites that cover some of the same material, this book emphasizes critical analysis, especially the analysis of narrative. The author analyzes narrative via an original categorization of story forms in games. He also discusses video games as works of science fiction, including their characteristic themes and the links between them and other forms of science fiction.

Delve into a Collection of Science Fiction GamesThe beginning chapters explore game design and the history of science-fictional video games. The majority of the text deals with individual science-fictional games and the histories and natures of their various forms, such as the puzzle-based adventure and the more exploratory and immediate computer role-playing game (RPG).

Автор: Cheng William, Cheng Willam
Название: Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination
ISBN: 0199969973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199969975
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Video games open portals into fantastical worlds where imaginative play prevails. Sound Play explores the aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical stakes of people`s engagements with audio phenomena in video games-from sonic violence to synthesized operas, from democratic musical performances to verbal sexual harassment.

Автор: Gunter
Название: Does Playing Video Games Make Players More Violent?
ISBN: 1137579846 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137579843
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players. It examines the debates about the potential effects of these games and the divisions between scholars working in the field. It places the research on violent video games in the longer historical context of scholarly work on media violence. It examines research from around the world on the nature of video games and their effects. It provides a critique of relevant theories of media violence effects and in particular theories developed within the older media violence literature and then considers how useful this and newer scholarly work might be for policy-makers and regulators. The book identifies where gaps exist in the extent literature and where future research attention might be directed.