Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
$85.86
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
6 February 2024
Summary
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been fact-by-fact chronicles; fundamental terms of game design and development, technology, and play have rarely been examined in the context of their historical, etymological, and conceptual underpin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551106 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262551101 |
| Author: | Henry Lowood, Raiford Guins |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 6 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Game Histories |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
Henry Lowood
Henry Lowood is Curator for History of Science and Technology and for Film and Media collections at Stanford University and the coeditor of The Machinima Reader (MIT Press).
Raiford Guins is Professor of Culture and Technology at Stony Brook University and the author of Game After- A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife (MIT Press).
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