An Introduction to Game Studies First edition.

Author

• Mayra, Frans

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2012

Language

English

ISBN

9781412934466

Series

Subject(s)

• COMPUTER GAMES
• GAMES
• VIDEO GAMES

Notes

• includes bibliographical references

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Abstract

An Introduction to Game Studies is a core textbook for game studies as an academic discipline, and is the comprehensive guide to the field. It introduces the student to the history and character of games studies as an analytical study of games in culture, and then moves to provide an overview of games as signifying and dynamic cultural constructs. This book shows how to analyze games by introducing the core analytical concepts in the contexts of games and game cultures of four periods. It covers the prehistory of games, the 70s, 80s, and 90s and also contemporary developments. Students will be introduced to both the theoretical core and the essential genres and classics of the subject.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (ix, 196 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction: what is game studies? --
2. Game culture: meaning in games --
3. Play and games in history --
4. Dual structure and the action games of the 1970s --
5. Adventures and other fiction in the 1980s' games --
6. Three-dimensionality and the early 1990s --
7. real and the game: game culture entering the new millennium --
8. Preparing for a game studies project.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00949/19	306.487 May I	Online !	Available