From Pong to digital actuality, Understanding Video Video games, 4th Version, takes online game research into the subsequent decade of the twenty-first century, highlighting adjustments within the space, together with cellular, social, and informal gaming.
On this new version of the pioneering textual content, college students study to evaluate the most important theories used to investigate video games, corresponding to ludology and narratology, and achieve familiarity with the industrial and organizational facets of the sport business. Drawing from historic and modern examples, the student-friendly textual content additionally explores the aesthetics of video games, evaluates the cultural place of video video games, and considers the potential results of each violent and “severe” video games.
Extensively illustrated and that includes dialogue questions, a glossary of key phrases, and an in depth online game historical past timeline, this new version is an indispensable useful resource for college kids, students, and academics excited by analyzing the methods video video games proceed to reshape leisure and society.
Writer : Routledge; 4th version (September 24, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1138363057
ISBN-13 : 978-1138363052
Merchandise Weight : 1.85 kilos
Dimensions : 7.01 x 0.94 x 10 inches
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