Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781032229744 / Miękka / 2024 / 448 str.

Denmark) Tosca Susana Pajares (IT University of Copenhagen

Opis

The fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes in mobile, social, and casual gaming. Drawing from examples, the text explores the aesthetics of games, evaluates the cultural position of video games, and considers the potential effects of both violent and "serious" games.

Recenzje

Praise for the fourth edition::

"Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction is a must-read primer for any student considering game studies. A handbook that is clear, precise, up-to-date and extremely useful for tackling video games, a cultural and technical phenomenon of great complexity and full of nuances." -- Belen Mainer Blance, Professor and Director of the Videogames Department at University Francisco de Vitoria

Praise for the third edition:

"A user-friendly, eminently readable account that has something to offer to both the neophyte and the specialist, Understanding Video Games is the text that is needed to secure a durable place for game studies in the academic curriculum." -- Marie-Laure Ryan, author of Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media

"As the core text for my introductory games course, Understanding Video Games has remained an essential guide since its first edition. Ever attentive to the practicalities of classroom needs, this superb update presents its most complete and accessible overview of game studies yet." -- Soraya Murray, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Understanding Video Games is an admirably comprehensive treatment of the video game industry, history, culture, and theory. This new edition remains the best general textbook I've found for teaching video games in the college classroom." -- Alf Seegert, University of Utah

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION 1. STUDYING VIDEO GAMES  2. THE GAME INDUSTRY  3. WHAT IS A GAME?  4. HISTORY  5. VIDEO GAME AESTHETICS  6. VIDEO GAMES IN CULTURE  7. NARRATIVE  8. SERIOUS GAMES AND GAMIFICATON—WHEN ENTERTAINMENT IS NOT ENOUGH  9. VIDEO GAMES AND RISKS  10. THE FUTURE OF THE GAME STUDIES

O autorze

Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen is CEO of Serious Games Interactive and DiBL. He has a PhD from IT-University of Copenhagen in Games and learning. Previously he worked as an assistant professor at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Jonas Heide Smith has a PhD in games and is Head of Digital at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark where he works on digital cultural heritage.

Susana Pajares Tosca is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Over the last twenty years, her research has combined aesthetic and media studies approaches to investigating the reception of digital media, with focus on games, transmedial worlds and Japanese media mix. She is a founding editor of the journal Gamestudies.