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Empathy and Violent Video Games: Aggression and Prosocial Behavior

Christian Happ, ‎ André Melzer

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Through three empirical studies, this book explores the mechanisms behind moderating functions of empathy in violent video games, revealing new insights that will inform t...

The Golden Age of Video Games: The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry

Roberto Dillon

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This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainm...

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

Celia Pearce

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Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil Wa...

The Machinima Reader

Henry Lowood, Michael Nitsche

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Over the last decade, machinima--the use of computer game engines to create movies--has emerged as a vibrant area in digital culture. Machinima as a filmmaking tool grew f...

Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming

Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, Jennifer Y. Sun

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Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play,...

Korea's Online Gaming Empire

Dal Yong Jin

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In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on television, professional gamers are celebrities, and youth culture is often identified with ...

The Second Life Herald The Virtual Tabloid: that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse

Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace

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When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times, it just might ...

Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames

Mia Consalvo

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The widely varying experiences of players of digital games challenge the notions that there is only one correct way to play a game. Some players routinely use cheat codes,...

The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning

Katie Salen Tekinbaş

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In the many studies of games and young people’s use of them, little has been written about an overall “ecology” of gaming, game design and play—mapping the ways that all t...

Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971–1984

Van Burnham

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It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world...From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon—more t...

First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan

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Electronic games have established a huge international market, significantly outselling non-digital games; people spend more money on The Sims than on "Monopoly" or even o...

Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

Noah Wardrip-Fruin

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What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough—or should we look further? In Expressive Proc...

Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform

Steven E. Jones, George K. Thiruvathukal

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The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during dev...

War Games: A History of War on Paper

Philipp von Hilgers

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For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the...

Characteristics of Games

George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, K. Robert Gutschera

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Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits—including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and rewa...

The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World

William Sims Bainbridge

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World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning hand, no princess to be rescued. WoW is an immersive virtual world in which characters must co...

Playing with Sound A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games

Karen Collins

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In Playing with Sound, Karen Collins examines video game sound from the player’s perspective. She explores the many ways that players interact with a game’s sonic aspects—...

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design

Флинт Дилл, John Zuur Platten

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• Authors are top game designers • Aspiring game writers and designers must have this complete bible There are other books about creating video games out there. ...

Creating the Art of the Game

Matthew Omernick

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Book Description The key word here is art: the dynamic 3D art that defines the world of computer games. This book teaches you everything you need to know about the plannin...

Making Games Better: The Art and Process of Game Design and Development

Andrew Mayer, ‎ Will Guy

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Before you can share your great game with the world first you need to survive the process of software development. In Making Games Better you'll learn the keys to being a...

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