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Video Game Spaces: Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds
Here, Nitsche introduces five analytical layers - rule-based space, mediated space, fictional space, play space, and social space - and uses them in the analyses of games that range from early classics to recent titles.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255110
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- 1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) :illustrations
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Codename revolution: The Nintendo WII platform
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development, signaled a turn away from fully immersive, time-consuming MMORPGs or forty-hour FPS games and back toward family fun in the living room. Players using the wireless motion-sensitive controller (the Wii Remote, or "Wii…
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- 9780262301312
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- 1 online resource (x, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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Video Games Around the World
Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262328487
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 697 pages) :illustrations
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I Am Error: The Nintendo Family Computer / Entertainment System Platform
In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I AM ERROR. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic mesage was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of "My Name is Error," a benign programmer's joke. In I AM ERROR Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Ent…
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- 0262328399
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- 1 online resource (xii, 426 pages) :illustrations.
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The 360? gaze :immersions in media, society, and culture
"A history of Immersion from Plato's cave to the Oculus Rift"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363310
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Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames
"In Cheating, Mia Consalvo investigates how players choose to play games and what happens when they can't always play the way they'd like. She explores a broad range of player behavior, including cheating (alone and in groups); examines the varying ways that players and industry define cheating; describes how the game industry itself has helped systematize cheating; and studies online cheating …
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- 9780262270748
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- 1 online resource (ix, 228 pages)
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The media snatcher PC CORE TURBO ENGINE GRAFX 16 CDROM2 SUPER DUO ARCADE RX
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- 9780262354868
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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Player vs. monster :the making and breaking of video game monstrosity
"A book on how video games changed monsters, and how video game monsters shape our notions of otherness"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373241
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Wandering games
"In an increasingly hectic world, walking simulators provide a chance for a meditative online experience. Wandering Games will be the first book to explore this genre"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370980
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Play like a feminist
An important new voice provides a riveting look at why video games need feminism and why all of us should make space for more play in our lives. "You play like a girl": it's meant to be an insult, accusing a player of subpar, un-fun playing. If you're a girl, and you grow up, do you "play like a woman"--whatever that means' In this provocative and enlightening book, Shira Chess urges us to play…
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