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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 games as signifying and dynamic cultural constructs. This book shows how to analyze games by introducing the core analytical concepts in the contexts of games and game cultures of four periods. It covers the prehistory of games, the 70s, 80s, and 90s and also contemporary developments. Students will be introduced to both the theoretical core and the essential genres and classics of the subject.
Dual Structure and the Action Games of the 1970s
Dual Structure and the Action Games of the 1970s
Digital Games as Multi-Layered Meaning-Making Systems
In the previous chapter we discussed the multiple historical perspectives where digital games can be approached from. One key issue is how to understand the role of digital technology in the phenomenon we are ...
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