Filter By
- Title
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play Michael Austin (Howard University, USA) 9781501308536
$46.43Music Video Games takes a look (and listen) at the popular genre of music games - video games in which music is at the forefront of player interaction and gameplay. With chapters on a wide variety of music games, ranging from well-known console games... -
The Digital Child: The Evolution of Inwardness in the Histories of Childhood Daniel Dervin (Professor emeritus of English at the University of Mary Washington) 9781412865371
RRP: $174.15$152.93Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external stimulation, has childhood development been helped or... -
Holistic Game Development with Unity 3e: An All-in-One Guide to Implementing Game Mechanics, Art, Design and Programming Penny de Byl 9781138480735
RRP: $167.70$145.36Master game design and digital art principles simultaneously with this all-in-one guide to creating games in the cutting-edge game engine Unity. Reworked for C# and Unity 2018 & 2019, and bursting with images and tutorials, Penny de Byl's Holistic Game... -
Video Games in Psychotherapy Robert Rice 9781032119175
RRP: $167.70$144.07Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today's youth.Using concepts from... -
Fifty Key Video Games Bernard Perron (University of Montreal, Canada) 9781032057989
RRP: $174.15$152.41- The first book dedicated to exploring key video games from the 1970s to present day. - Provides a highly accessible overview of the history of video games from PONG, Pac-Man and Tetris to Minecraft, Animal Crossing and Assassin's Creed. - The selection... -
Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture Roger Stahl 9780415999779
RRP: $174.15$152.41Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment-or "militainment"-in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but... -
Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games Ian Bogost 9780415996594
RRP: $174.15$152.41Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games... -
Philosophy Through Video Games Jon Cogburn 9780415988575
RRP: $174.15$152.41How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics?Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness?How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes fromZork, Grand Theft Auto, and Civilization?A variety of increasingly... -
Videogames James Newman (Bath Spa University, UK) 9780415669153
RRP: $174.15$152.41In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman's volume considers how we might approach videogames as media texts... -
Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games Andrei Nae (University of Bucharest, Romania) 9780367894115
RRP: $174.15$152.41This book investigates the narrativity of some of the most popular survival horror video games and the gender politics implicit in their storyworlds. In a thorough analysis of the genre that draws upon detailed comparisons with the mainstream action... -
The Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming Justin M Jacobson 9780367699451
RRP: $167.70$144.07"As esports has grown, the need for professional legal representation has grown with it. Justin's Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming provides a great baseline and will help prevent the legal horror stories of... -
Sounding Emerging Media Claire Fitch 9780367495497
RRP: $174.15$152.41Sounding Emerging Media details a practice-based approach to sonic art and electroacoustic composition, drawing on methodologies inspired by the production of electronic literature, and game development.Using the structural concepts identified by Gilles... -
Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games Michelle Herte 9780367479916
RRP: $174.15$152.41This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and how we identify them in different media. While narrative... -
Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions Andreas Rauscher 9780367474195
RRP: $174.15$152.93This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture... -
Videogames and the Gothic Ewan Kirkland (University of Brighton, UK.) 9780367460228
RRP: $174.15$152.41This book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship as it argues for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itselfThis book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame... -
Hybrid Play: Crossing Boundaries in Game Design, Players Identities and Play Spaces Adriana de Souza e Silva 9780367427788
RRP: $174.15$152.41This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity-one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of interacting with and understanding the world. The... -
Japanese Culture Through Videogames Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA) 9780367111380
RRP: $174.15$152.93Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and context can be analyzed together to understand videogames...