What Is a Game? - Essays on the Nature of Videogames (Paperback)

What is a video game? What makes a video game "good"? If a game is supposed to be fun, can it be fun without a good story? If another is supposed to be an accurate simulation, does it still need to be entertaining? With the ever-expanding explosion of new video games and new developments in the gaming world, questions about video game criticism are becoming more complex. The differing definitions that players and critics use to decide what a game is and what makes a game successful, often lead to different ideas of how games succeed or fail. This collection of essays puts on display the variety and ambiguity of video games. Each essay is a work of game criticism that takes a different approach to defining the game and analyzing it. Through analysis and critical methods, these essays discuss whether a game is defined by its rules, its narrative, its technology, or by the activity of playing it, and the tensions between these definitions. With essays on Overwatch, Dark Souls 3, Far Cry 4, Farmville and more, this collection attempts to show the complex changes, challenges and advances to game criticism in the era of video games.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Gaming
Release date:	February 2020
Editors:	Gaines S. Hubbell • Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	237
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-6837-6
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Indoor games > General
LSN:	1-4766-6837-X
Barcode:	9781476668376

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!