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181.00 ₪
Tempest: Geometries of Play
181.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780472052691
יצא לאור ב
Ann Arbor
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
192
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
30 בספט׳ 2015
שם סדרה
Landmark Video Games
Enumerates and analyzes Tempest's landmark qualities--from aesthetics and development to its impact on video game history and culture
Atari's 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a "tube shooter" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game's initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed "SkillStep"), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games.
In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze Tempest's landmark qualities, exploring the game's aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game's latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes.
עמודים | 192 |
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פורמט | Paperback / softback |
ISBN10 | 0472052691 |
יצא לאור ב | Ann Arbor |
תאריך יציאה לאור | 30 בספט׳ 2015 |
זמן אספקה | 21 ימי עסקים |
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