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What Is a Game? - Essays on the Nature of Videogames (Paperback)
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What Is a Game? - Essays on the Nature of Videogames (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Gaming
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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.
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