Computer Games As Landscape Art (1st ed. 2023)

This book proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, geography, game studies and play. Like paint on canvas, the game engine is taken as the underlying medium, and using the Valve Source Engine as the primary case study, it analyses landscapes according to the technical, economic and cultural features this medium affords. It presents the single-player first-person shooter (Half-Life 2) as a Promethean safari, examines how the economics of gambling and product placement shaped the eSports landscapes of Counter-Strike and reveals how sandboxes such as Garry’s Mod visualise the radical landscape of Web 2.0. This book explores how our relationship to the environment is changing, how we express this through computer games and how we can move beyond examining artistic influences on games to examining how historical connections flow through games and the history of landscape images.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Peter Nelson
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	190
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-137633-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-137633-1
Barcode:	9783031376337

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