Japanese Culture Through Videogames, Hutchinson Rachael

Автор: Rauscher, Andreas Stein, Daniel Thon, Jan-noel
Название: Comics and videogames
ISBN: 0367539012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367539016
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture.The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of inquiry: The first part of the book focuses on hybrid medialities and experimental aesthetics "between" comics and videogames; the second part zooms in on how comics and videogames function as transmedia expansions within an increasingly convergent and participatory media culture. The individual chapters address synergies and intersections between comics and videogames via a diverse set of case studies ranging from independent and experimental projects via popular franchises from the corporate worlds of DC and Marvel to the more playful forms of media mix prominent in Japan.Offering an innovative intervention into a number of salient issues in current media culture, Comics and Videogames will be of interest to scholars and students of comics studies, game studies, popular culture studies, transmedia studies, and visual culture studies.

Автор: A. Martin Wainwright
Название: Virtual History: How Videogames Portray the Past
ISBN: 1138069086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138069084
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Virtual History examines popular historical video games released over the last decade and explores their portrayal of history. Supported by examples and screenshots, it is useful for those studying the portrayal of history through videogames as well as media and world history more generally.

Название: Independent videogames
ISBN: 0367563401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367563400
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Описание: Independent Videogames investigates the social and cultural implications of contemporary forms of independent video game development. Through a series of case studies and theoretical investigations, it evaluates the significance of such a multi-faceted phenomenon within video game and digital cultures. A diverse team of scholars highlight the specificities of independence within the industry and the culture of digital gaming through case studies and theoretical questions. The chapters focus on labor, gender, distribution models and technologies of production to map the current state of research on independent game development. The authors also identify how the boundaries of independence are becoming opaque in the contemporary game industry – often at the cost of the claims of autonomy, freedom and emancipation that underlie the indie scene. The book ultimately imagines new and better narratives for a less exploitative and more inclusive videogame industry.Systematically mapping the current directions of a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly difficult to define and limit, this book will be a crucial resource for scholars and students of game studies, media history, media industries and independent gaming.

Автор: Bateman Chris
Название: Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames
ISBN: 1501348965 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501348969
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased, yet traditional screenwriting techniques alone cannot equip writers for the unique challenges of writing stories where the actions and decisions of a diverse range of players are at the centre of every narrative experience. Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames was the first book to demystify the emerging field of game writing by identifying and explaining the skills required for creating videogame narrative. Through the insights and experiences of professional game writers, this revised edition captures a snapshot of the narrative skills employed in today's game industry and presents them as practical articles accompanied by exercises for developing the skills discussed. The book carefully explains the foundations of the craft of game writing, detailing all aspects of the process from the basics of narrative to guiding the player and the challenges of nonlinear storytelling. Throughout the book there is a strong emphasis on the skills developers and publishers expect game writers to know. This second edition brings the material up to date and adds four new chapters covering MMOs, script formats, narrative design for urban games, and new ways to think about videogame narrative as an art form. Suitable for both beginners and experienced writers, Game Writing is the essential guide to all the techniques of game writing. There's no better starting point for someone wishing to get into this exciting field, whether they are new game writers wishing to hone their skills, or screenwriters hoping to transfer their skills to the games industry.

Автор: Rachael Hutchinson
Название: Japanese Culture Through Videogames
ISBN: 0367111381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367111380
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analysed together to understand videogames as a dynamic mode of artistic expression.

Автор: James Newman
Название: Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence
ISBN: 0415577918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415577915
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Описание: Best Before examines the ways in which the obsessions with technological obsolescence and supersession and an industry defined by continual innovation have effectively closed down the possibility of valuing old videogames in any way other than curiosities or waypoints along the teleological journey to the next generation of hardware and software.

Автор: Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux
Название: Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames
ISBN: 0816687153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816687152
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, professional sports, and the War on Terror. In Metagaming, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux demonstrate how games always extend beyond the screen, and how modders, mappers, streamers, spectators, analysts, and artists are changing the way we play.Metagaming uncovers these alternative histories of play by exploring the strange experiences and unexpected effects that emerge in, on, around, and through videogames. Players puzzle through the problems of perspectival rendering in Portal, perform clandestine acts of electronic espionage in EVE Online, compete and commentate in Korean StarCraft, and speedrun The Legend of Zelda in record times (with or without the use of vision). Companies like Valve attempt to capture the metagame through international e-sports and online marketplaces while the corporate history of Super Mario Bros. is undermined by the endless levels of Infinite Mario, the frustrating pranks of Asshole Mario, and even Super Mario Clouds, a ROM hack exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art.One of the only books to include original software alongside each chapter, Metagaming transforms videogames from packaged products into instruments, equipment, tools, and toys for intervening in the sensory and political economies of everyday life. And although videogames conflate the creativity, criticality, and craft of play with the act of consumption, we don’t simply play videogames-we make metagames.

Автор: Christopher McMahon
Название: The Corruption of Play: Mapping the Ideological Play-Space of AAA Videogames
ISBN: 1801177376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781801177375
Издательство: Emerald
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Описание: The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play.

Автор: John Banks
Название: Co-creating Videogames
ISBN: 1474268420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474268424
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book draws from, and is supported by, a decade of ethnographic research undertaken with videogames development companies located in Australia and the USA. It explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise.

Автор: John Banks
Название: Co-creating Videogames
ISBN: 184966496X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849664967
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book draws from, and is supported by, a decade of ethnographic research undertaken with videogames development companies located in Australia and the USA. It explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise.

Автор: Cremin
Название: Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari
ISBN: 1138925527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138925526
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Описание: Videogames are a unique artistic form, and to analyse and understand them an equally unique language is required. Cremin turns to Deleuze and Guattari`s non-representational philosophy to develop a conceptual toolkit for thinking anew about videogames and our relationship to them.

Автор: Alex Wade
Название: Inside the New Media of Videogames: Exploring Digital Space and Time
ISBN: 1441170685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441170682
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: With their significant impact upon economic, social and political spheres, videogames are a crucial site of sociological research.The spaces in which videogames are played are often referred to by generic terms which do not adequately incorporate or convey the experiences of those who use technologies as a means of communication, work and play.Placing Lefebvre's The Production of Space (1991/1974) as its cornerstone, Exploring Videogames through Digital Space and Time examines how Lefebvre's conceptual typology of space can be used as a tool of analysis, arguing that the experiences of postindustrial society is concurrent to experiences of space: transient and in flux.Following a discussion of the influence of Lefebvre's writing upon contemporary considerations of space and specifically drawing on the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, McLuhan and Virilio, the book engages with the problem of identifying, defining and describing the spaces produced by videogames.It achieves this by revising and updating Lefebvre's typology and therefore offering an original and critical model for engaging with the complex spaces produced by videogames.Following a critique of the current uses of spatial terminology in literature specific to videogames, Exploring Videogames through Digital Space and Time applies the updated model of space to a critical and empirical study of the play, production, consumption and politics of videogames.Throughout the progression of the book it becomes apparent that the impact of digital space is symptomatic of wider sociological changes in interaction, politics, work, perception of time, everyday life and the body.