David Myers

Games are not

The difficult and definitive guide to what video games are

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Produktbeschreibung

In Game are not, David Myers demonstrates that current controversies and conflicts surrounding the meanings and effects of videogames are not going away; they are essential properties of the game's unique and paradoxical aesthetic form: a form critical to human creativity, knowledge, and sustenance of the species.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9781526121653
• ISBN-10: 1526121654
• Artikelnr.: 47878953

Autorenporträt

David Myers is Distinguished Professor of Mass Communication at Loyola University New Orleans

Inhaltsangabe

1 Games are not cooperative 2 Games are not designer intentions 3 Games are
not references (of the conventional sort) 4 Games are not narratives 5
Games are not beliefs 6 Games are not gameplay 7 Games are not toys 8 Games
are not simulations: part one 9 Games are not simulations: part two 10
Games are not commodities 11 Games are not what you think 12 Games are art
(because games are not art) Index