Playing at the World, 2e, Volume 2

Jon Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World , which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing g... Lees meer

The Elusive Shift

Jon Peterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Game Histories
• How the early Dungeons & Dragons community grappled with the nature of role-playing games, theorizing a new game genre. When Dungeons & Dragons made i... Lees meer

Zones of Control

• Hardcover | Engels | Game Histories
• Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games w... Lees meer

Arcade Britannia

Alan Meades

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• Discover the rich, little-known history of the British amusement arcade from the 1800s to the present--with insights from industry professionals, plus... Lees meer

The Game That Never Ends

Julien Mailland

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• A guide to the fascinating legal history of the videogame industry, written for nonlawyers. Why did a judge recall FIFA 15 , a nonviolent soccer game,... Lees meer

Gaming the Iron Curtain

Jaroslav Svelch

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expres... Lees meer

Game Wizards

Jon Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• Discover the colorful history of the table-top RPG phenomenon, Dungeons & Dragons , as a D&D expert examines its surprising successes, setbacks, and c... Lees meer

Debugging Game History

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field... Lees meer

Playing at the World, 2e, Volume 1

Jon Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World , which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing ga... Lees meer

Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

Melanie Swalwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Game Histories
• The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer user... Lees meer

Building SimCity

Chaim Gingold

• Paperback | Engels | Game Histories
• A deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game SimCity , situating it in the history of games, simulation, and computing. Building SimCity explores... Lees meer

Gaming the Iron Curtain

Jaroslav Svelch

• Hardcover | Engels | Game Histories
• How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expres... Lees meer