Computer Game Worlds

Computer Game Worlds

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Publisher's Synopsis

Computer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the creation of this entirely new type of game? What sorts of knowledge facilitated the requisite technological and institutional transformations?

With Computer Game Worlds, Claus Pias sets out to answer these questions. Tracing computer games from their earliest forms to the unstoppable commercial and cultural phenomena they have become today, Pias then provides a careful epistemological reconstruction of the process of playing games, both at computers and by computers themselves. The book makes a valuable theoretical contribution to the ongoing discussion about computer games.

 

Book information

ISBN: 9783035800135
Publisher: Diaphanes
Imprint: Diaphanes
Pub date:
DEWEY: 794.8
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 614g
Height: 157mm
Width: 235mm
Spine width: 34mm