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Formalism is often used as an all-embracing term covering a range of ontological and methodological approaches in game studies, with little connection to the history or tradition of the approach in other fields. This dilutes the usefulness of the ...

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With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicit ways of framing th...

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Characters are a vital aspect of todays transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media culture in which they are cons...

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The history of European videogames has so far been overshadowed by the global impact of the Japanese and North American industries. However, European game development studios have played a major role in videogame history, and many prominent videog...

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Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World. Players experience play in g...

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Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassins Creed to find out how and why the ...

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From the Foreword by Neal Stephenson: "Whether you are a writer or game-maker seeking the kind of information I sought while writing The Baroque Cycle, or just a general reader with an interest in the arts to which Guy Windsor has dedicated his ca...

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From the Foreword by Neal Stephenson: "Whether you are a writer or game-maker seeking the kind of information I sought while writing The Baroque Cycle, or just a general reader with an interest in the arts to which Guy Windsor has dedicated his ca...

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The game designers behind such hits as Angry Birds , Boom Beach , Cities: Skyline s, Trials , Clash Royale , Max Payne have learned plenty of trial-and-error lessons while creating an amazing array of world class gaming success stories. All of the...

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In the popular imagination, there can be no more archetypal symbol of the Middle Ages than that of the knight. The origins of knights are unknown, but their heyday was between the 10th and 15th centuries. Indeed the knighthood reached its pinnacle...

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The years 1943-1945 marked a reversal in the military fortunes of Germany, beginning with the huge defeat suffered by the 6th Army at Stalingrad on 2 February 1943. This volume, the second in the `Soldat' series, traces the lives and fate of the G...

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Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with 'locative media' technologies. Location-based games are played in everyday public spaces using GPS and networked, mobile techn...

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Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess the characteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces are composed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and are organized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local ...

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This book highlights the challenges and potential of educational learning or industry-based training using serious games and social media platforms. In particular, the book addresses applications used in businesses and education-related organizati...

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This book highlights the challenges and potential of educational learning or industry-based training using serious games and social media platforms. In particular, the book addresses applications used in businesses and education-related organizati...

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The topics treated in this handbook cover all areas of games and entertainment technologies, such as digital entertainment; technology, design/art, and sociology. The handbook consists of contributions from top class scholars and researchers from ...

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About collection: «Make professional's techniques accessible to everybody». Books of this collection are organized in this way: projects, recipes on which the projects are based, and sheets for beginners and those who want to increase their knowle...

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, Third Editions wanted to pay respect to this legendary saga, one of the most prestigious in the gaming world. This work chronicles every game of the series, from the first episode to the la...

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A global and unprecedented vision of a video game masterpiece. The Metal Gear Saga is one of the most iconic in the video game history. It's been 25 years now that Hideo Kojima's masterpiece is keeping us in suspense, thanks to its complex and dee...

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In depth investigation into a famous series of video games In just three episodes, the Bioshock series managed to score some big points amongst players' hearts. Spiritual successor of System Shock 2, the first Bioshock was an Irrational Games' gam...

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The Commodore 64 was an incredible piece of tech for its time and left a generation with enough happy and nostalgic gaming memories to last a lifetime. Are C64 games still worth playing today - even if you have all the latest modern releases? My a...

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MS-DOS games encompassed the 1980s and 1990s and are regarded to be a golden era for home gaming. How could it not be a golden era with games like Doom, Quake, The Secret of Monkey Island, Star Wars: X-Wing, and so on? The DOS era left behind enou...

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Are you a beginner who'd like to know how to program video games?Would you like to get ahold of simple, effective, and compatible steps that will enable you to be an excellent problem solver while game programming? Do you want to start game coding...

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Video games aren't just for kids anymore. This book will describe the "e;why"e; and "e;how"e; to start or expand a video gaming program in the library, including some specific examples of how to target adult and female gamer patron...

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This guide shows youth librarians how to use the appeal of Minecraft-a game that many young learners are intensely passionate about-to create engaging library programs that encourage creativity and build STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Ar...

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Read the definitive guide to the modern world of competitive gaming, and The Official History of Esports. Almost overnight, esports-or competitive video games-have exploded into the largest entertainment and sporting phenomenon in human history. T...

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Video games are a nostalgia-producing machine, and A Game In The Life breaks down over a dozen timeless titles to see what makes them so compelling years after release. Looking back at classic titles like Capcom's Mega Man 2 and Square Enix's Fina...

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Quasi il 40% della popolazione mondiale gioca ai videogiochi. Che si tratti di smartphone, console o PC, l'industria del gioco è in rapida crescita, senza segni di stagnazione. Ma lei probabilmente fa parte di una percentuale molto più piccola, pe...

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