Handmade pixels : independent video games and the quest for authenticity

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Tác giả: Jesper Juul

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0262354349

Ký hiệu phân loại: 794.8 Electronic games Computer games

Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2019

Mô tả vật lý: 1 PDF (x, 316 pages) : , color illustrations.

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 313900

 "Video games are often dismissed as mere entertainment products created by faceless corporations. The last twenty years, however, have seen the rise of independent, or "indie," video games: a wave of small, cheaply developed, experimental, and personal video games that react against mainstream video game development and culture. In Handmade Pixels, Jesper Juul examine the paradoxical claims of developers, players, and festivals that portray independent games as unique and hand-crafted objects in a globally distributed digital medium. Juul explains that independent video games are presented not as mass market products, but as cultural works created by people, and are promoted as authentic alternatives to mainstream games. Writing as a game player, scholar, developer, and educator, Juul tells the story of how independent games--creative, personal, strange, and experimental--became a historical movement that borrowed the term "independent" from film and music while finding its own kind of independence. Juul describes how the visual style of independent games signals their authenticity--often by referring to older video games or analog visual styles. He shows how developers use strategies for creating games with financial, aesthetic, and cultural independence
  discusses the aesthetic innovations of 'walking simulator' games
  and explains the controversies over what is and what isn't a game. Juul offers examples from independent games ranging from Dys4ia to Firewatch
  the text is richly illustrated with many color images."-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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