Description: What Is a Game? : Essays on the Nature of Videogames, Paperback by Hubbell, Gaines S.; Kapell, Matthew Wilhelm (EDT), ISBN 147666837X, ISBN-13 9781476668376, Brand New, Free shipping in the US What is a videogame? What makes a videogame "good"? If a game is supposed to be fun, can it be fun without a good story? If another is supposed to be an accurate simulation, does it still need to be entertaining? With the ever-expanding explosion of new videogames and new developments in the gaming world, questions about videogame criticism are becoming more complex. The differing definitions that players and critics use to decide what a game is and what makes a game successful, often lead to different ideas of how games succeed or fail. This collection of essays puts on display the variety and ambiguity of videogames. Each essay is a work of game criticism that takes a different approach to defining the game and analyzing it. Through analysis and critical methods, these essays discuss whether a game is defined by its rules, its narrative, its technology, or by the activity of playing it, and the tensions between these definitions. With essays on Overwatch, Dark Souls 3, Far Cry 4, Farmville and more, this collection attempts to show the complex changes, challenges and advances to game criticism in the era of videogames.
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Book Title: What Is a Game? : Essays on the Nature of Videogames
Number of Pages: 291 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is a Game? : Essays on the Nature of Videogames
Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Subject: General, Video & Electronic
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Subject Area: Sports & Recreation, Games & Activities
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Series: Studies in Gaming Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
