Jacob Geller – författare

Over his illustrious career, Jacob Geller has written and produced a sprawling collection of video essays. Deftly interweaving video game analysis with complex narratives about art, politics and history, Geller’s work positions games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves.How a Game Lives re-examines ten of Geller’s most iconic essays accompanied by his brand-new commentary, afterwords on each piece by some of the industry’s best writers and stunning original artwork by Kilian Eng and other exceptional artists.With videos like “Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?”, “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”, and “The Legacy of the Haunted House”, Geller has taught audiences how to think about the art that’s affected them. How a Game Lives immortalises those works and more and provides boundless insight into the construction, philosophy, and afterlife of each essay. Featuring original scripts and new industry analysis of the following works: Who’s Afraid of Modern Art? Returnal is a Hell of Our Own Creation Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything? The Decade-Long Quest for Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Great Secret Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda Art in the Pre-Apocalypse The Golem and the Jewish Superhero The Future of Writing about Games Fear of Cold

Over his illustrious career, Jacob Geller has written and produced a sprawling collection of video essays. Deftly interweaving video game analysis with complex narratives about art, politics and history, Geller’s work positions games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves. “This is an effort to keep the text alive, to never have ‘the final word’ on something in a world where we never stop learning and growing.” – Jacob Geller You’re Not Overthinking It: The Annotated Essays of Jacob Geller re-examines more of Geller’s most iconic essays, brought to the page for the first time and accompanied by his brand-new commentary. Featuring a foreword by the poet/novelist Kaveh Akbar. Each piece comes with afterwords from some of the industry’s best writers and there is stunning original artwork by Kilian Eng and other exceptional artists – including a graphic novel from renowned creator, Richard Blake.Featuring original scripts and new industry analysis of the following works: The False Evolution of Execution Methods The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away? Nothing Ever Stops Existing Art for No One The Shape of Infinity Fear of Dark A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul

Over his illustrious career, Jacob Geller has written and produced a sprawling collection of video essays. Deftly interweaving video game analysis with complex narratives about art, politics and history, Geller’s work positions games as vital tools for understanding each other and ourselves.How a Game Lives re-examines ten of Geller’s most iconic essays accompanied by his brand-new commentary, afterwords on each piece by some of the industry’s best writers and stunning original artwork by Kilian Eng and other exceptional artists.With videos like “Who’s Afraid of Modern Art?”, “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”, and “The Legacy of the Haunted House”, Geller has taught audiences how to think about the art that’s affected them. How a Game Lives immortalises those works and more and provides boundless insight into the construction, philosophy, and afterlife of each essay. Featuring original scripts and new industry analysis of the following works: Who’s Afraid of Modern Art? Returnal is a Hell of Our Own Creation Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything? The Decade-Long Quest for Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Great Secret Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda Art in the Pre-Apocalypse The Golem and the Jewish Superhero The Future of Writing about Games Fear of Cold

The first of two volumes: How a Game Lives, Vol. 1 is an artfully packaged must-have book for the devoted and casual fans alike, inviting readers to look at gaming and video games from an intellectual, psychological, and emotional perspective as a major part of our cultural fabric.

Jacob Geller has 1 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, where he shares in-depth videos on modern gaming and analysis of the games themselves-- interwoven with conversations about politics, art, history and popular culture. Placing video games into the larger media, cultural and artistic context, How a Game Lives, Vol.1 will be a stunning four-color collection that takes Geller’s most popular YouTube essays, puts them into print for the first time, and updates them with full annotation by Geller himself and commentary by other writers. Illustrated throughout with original artwork inspired by the games, How a Game Lives, Vol. 1 is truly unique.

 The games covered in this volume include:

 The Legend of Zelda seriesShadow of the ColossusReturnalControlCall of Dutyand more...

Geller has taught audiences how to think about video games as art, and how that art has affected them.