Gaming

Author: Alexander R. Galloway
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B0043D1WY8

Gaming: Essays On Algorithmic Culture (Electronic Mediations)

Video games have been a central feature of the cultural landscape for over twenty years and now rival older media like movies, television, and music in popularity and cultural influence. Get Gaming computer books for free.
Yet there have been relatively few attempts to understand the video game as an independent medium. Most such efforts focus on the earliest generation of text-based adventures (Zork, for example) and have little to say about such visually and conceptually sophisticated games as Final Fantasy X, Shenmue, Grand Theft Auto, Halo, and The Sims, in which players inhabit elaborately detailed worlds and manipulate digital avatars with a vast-and in some cases, almost unlimited-array of actions and choices.

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