e-books in Video Games category
Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gamingby Tanja Sihvonen - Amsterdam University Press , 2011
The author explores the question of what happens when players practice and negotiate computer code, various ideologies, and the game itself by modding (modifying a game) in the context of The Sims, the bestselling computer game of all time.
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More than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Formby Barry Atkins - Manchester University Press , 2003
Barry Atkins discusses questions of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: Tomb Raider, Half-Life, Close Combat and SimCity. This is a work for both the student of contemporary culture and game-players.
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#PS3History: The Complete History Of The PS3by GregoryRasputin - Smashwords , 2016
This book is about one of the greatest games consoles ever created, the PlayStation 3(PS3), it covers every aspect of the consoles journey over the past 10+ years, it's highs and it's lows, the games, different versions, the hacking and the homebrew.
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Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticismby Erik Champion et al. - ETC Press , 2012
Are games worthy of academic attention? Can they be used effectively in the classroom, in the research laboratory, as an innovative design tool, as a persuasive political weapon? This book aims to answer these and more questions.
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A Playful Pathby Bernard De Koven - ETC Press , 2014
The book serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.
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Missions for Thoughtful Gamersby Andrew Cutting - ETC Press , 2011
This book presents a sequence of 40 challenges, each one inviting players to become more creatively curious and self-aware. It provides inspiration for a new generation of designers, as well as an introduction for non-gamers to why videogames matter.
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Game Research Methods: An Overviewby Petri Lankoski, et al. - ETC Press , 2015
This book provides an introduction to various game research methods that are useful to students in all levels of higher education covering both quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Approaches using game development for research is described.
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Co-creating Videogamesby John Banks - Bloomsbury Academic , 2013
This book offers a rich description and analysis of the emerging participatory, co-creative relationships within the videogames industry. Banks discusses the challenges of incorporating these co-creative relationships into the development process.
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Silent Hill: The Terror Engineby Bernard Perron - University of Michigan Press , 2011
Silent Hill, with its first title released in 1999, is one of the most influential of the horror video game series. This book is both a close analysis of the first three Silent Hill games and a general look at the whole series.
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DOOM: SCARYDARKFASTby Dan Pinchbeck - University of Michigan Press , 2013
In 1993, id Software's seminal shooter DOOM was released and it shook the foundations of the medium. This is a book about the most important first-person game ever made; about the blueprint that has defined one of the most successful gaming genres.
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Gamer Theoryby McKenzie Wark - Harvard University Press , 2007
Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life. The book depicts a world becoming a series of less and less perfect games.
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This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Citiesby Jim Rossignol - University of Michigan Press , 2008
Torn between unabashed optimism about the future of games and lingering doubts about whether they are just a waste of time, the book 'This Gaming Life' raises some important questions about this new and vital cultural form.
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Myst and Riven: The World of the D'niby Mark J. P. Wolf - University of Michigan Press , 2011
This book is a close analysis of two of the most popular and significant video games in the history of the genre, investigating in detail their design, their functionality, and the gameplay experience they provide players.
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My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraftby Bonnie Nardi - University of Michigan Press , 2010
World of Warcraft is currently the most popular online world game on the planet. Bonnie Nardi compiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the US and China into this study of player behavior and activity.
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The Complete Wargames Handbookby James F Dunnigan - Quill , 1992
With the wide availability of the home computer, wargame enthusiasts regularly confront each other in action-packed simulated battles. This is the definitive all-in-one sourcebook on the new potentials and classic excitement of wargaming.
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PSX: The Guide to the Sony Playstationby Kevin Bryan - Lulu.com , 2005
The Sony Playstation is the single most successful home video game system ever released, dominating in the USA and Europe. This book provides information on every American release and interviews some of the creators of the Playstation's best games.
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Well Played 3.0: Video Games, Value and Meaningby Drew Davidson et al. , 2011
Following on versions 1.0 and 2.0, this book is full of in-depth close readings of video games. Contributors analyze sequences in a game in detail in order to illustrate and interpret how the various components of a game create a playing experience.
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Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Mediaby Drew Davidson et al. - Lulu.com , 2008
This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. Throughout, the promises and problems of implementing games and media in learning experiences are explored.
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Play Redux: The Form of Computer Gamesby David Myers - University of Michigan Press , 2010
A critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early twentieth-century formalist theory and models of literature. Play Redux will generate interest among scholars of communications, new media, and film.
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Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaningby Drew Davidson - Lulu.com , 2009
The book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. The goal is to help develop a literacy of games as well as a sense of their value as an experience.
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