"A deep dive into a masterwork, Building SimCity analyzes the history, reception, and design of Will Wright's seminal simulation game, and locates SimCity-alongside Maxis, its developer/publisher-within the larger history of simulation, computing, and games"--
Sprache
Verlagsort
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
USA
Verlagsgruppe
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 225 mm
Breite: 150 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-262-54748-2 (9780262547482)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Chaim Gingold, foreword by Janet H. Murray
Series Foreword
Foreword
Janet H. Murray
Acknowledgments
Introduction: SimCity’s Mystique
Part I: Simulation’s Grasp
1 Building Imaginary Cities
2 Simulation as Analogy
Part II: Paving the Road to SimCity
3 System Dynamics: A Society of Bits
4 Cellular Automata: Synthesizing the Universe
5 A Children’s Construction Set
Part III: SimCity’s Architects
6 Designing SimCity
7 Maxis at the Crossroads
8 How SimCity Works
9 Playing SimCity
The World in a Machine
Appendix: Reverse Diagrams
Notes
References
Index
