Gaming Matters
Art, Science, Magic and the Computer Game Medium
The University of Alabama Press
Will be published approx. on 30. May 2011
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-8173-1737-9 (ISBN)
Description
In "Gaming Matters," McAllister and Ruggill turn from the broader discussion of video game rhetoric to study the video game itself as a medium and the specific features that give rise to games as similar and yet diverse as Pong, Tomb Raider, and Halo.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-1737-9 (9780817317379)
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Additional editions
Judd Ethan Ruggill | Ken S. McAllister
Gaming Matters
Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium
E-Book
05/2011
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
€89.99
Available for download
Persons
Judd Ethan Ruggill (Arizona State University) and Ken S. McAllister (University of Arizona) co-direct the Learning Games Initiative (LGI), a transdisciplinary, inter-institutional research group that studies, teaches with, and builds computer games. They also curate one of the world's largest research-oriented computer game archives, and have written and lectured extensively on the necessity of interdisciplinary collaboration, the politics of digital media, and the importance of play in scholarship.