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by Barry Atkins (Editor), Tanya Krzywinska (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press (1 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0719074010
  • ISBN-13: 978-0719074011
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
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  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 567,748 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Videogame, Player, Text" examines the playing and playful subject through a series of analytical essays focused on particular videogames and playing experiences. With essays from a range of internationally renowned game scholars, the major aim of this collection is to show how it is that videogames communicate their meanings and provide their pleasures. Each essay focuses on specific examples of gameplay dynamics to tease out the specificities of videogames as a new form of interaction between text and digital technology for the purposes of entertainment. That modes of engagement with the videogame text are many and varied, and construct the playing subject in different ways, provides the central theme of "Videogame, Player, Text". The need for an account of this range of difference is ideally suited to a multiple author edited collection. Online play, clan membership, competitive or co-operative play, player modification of game texts, and the solo play of a single player are each addressed through individual analyses of the gameplay experiences produced by, for example, The Sims, Grand Theft Auto, Prince of Persia, Doom, Quake, World of Warcraft, StreetFighter and Civilisation. This volume will appeal to academic researchers engaged in forging the nascent field of Game Studies, to students on the rapidly expanding Game Design courses in Higher Education, and to informed game enthusiasts.

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