An introduction to game studies : games in culture

An Introduction to Game Studies is a core textbook for game studies as an academic discipline, and is the comprehensive guide to the field. It introduces the student to the history and character of games studies as an analytical study of games in culture, and then moves to provide an overview of gam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Mäyrä, Frans
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles Sage Publications 2008
SAGE Publications Ltd
Subjects
Games > Cross-cultural studies
New Media & Communication Technology
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ISBN141293446X
9781412934459
1412934451
9781412934466
DOI10.4135/9781446214572

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is Game Studies? -- Game Culture: Meaning in Games -- Play and Games in History -- Dual Structure and the Action Games of the 1970s -- Adventures and other Fiction in the 1980s' Games -- Three-Dimensionality and the Early 1990s -- The Real and the Game: Game Culture Entering the New Millennium -- Preparing for a Game Studies Project