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Author: Ian Bogost
ISBN : B005IQ682U
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Direct download links available Free Download How to Do Things With Videogames (Electronic Mediations) [Kindle Edition] for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link In recent years, computer games have moved to the center of popular culture. Ian Bogost, a leading videogames scholar of videogames and an award-winning game designer, explores the many ways computer games are used today in a series of short, inviting, and provocative essays, arguing that together they make the medium broader, richer, and more relevant to a wider audience.Direct download links available for Free Download How to Do Things With Videogames
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B005IQ682U
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This book's form makes it incredibly accessible and inviting: 20 short essays or occasions through which Ian Bogost invites his readers to think (without any heavy imperative to 'think critically') about how videogames have become a "mature medium."
Bogost describes myriad videogames along the way, and his scene and scenario descriptions are precise and nuanced, yet always concise such that even non-gamers will follow and find solid points of attachment and interest. (I haven't played a videogame seriously since 1992: Metroid II on Gameboy.) In other words, the book is not only an astute and scintillating argument; it is also educational in the most satisfying sense of the word. Speaking of education, I can definitely imagine teaching this book in an undergraduate digital humanities course, as it demonstrates this emergent field at its best: in grounded, lucid, and layered investigations.
In short, "How To Do Things With Videogames" will be of great interest to all sorts of people: everyday gamers and game makers, certainly, but also to non-gamers as well as to scholars and students of contemporary culture--which is to say the book is media studies for the world.
By Christopher Schaberg
Here's a situation for you: you're at dinner with your parents, or your partner, or your partner's parents, or your partner's friends. They hear that you study or make games for a living, or that games are the primary way that you spend your leisure time. They tell you that their 8-year old nephew would love to hang out with you, because you love doing the same "childish" activity that they do. Or they want to know why you'd spend so much time and mental energy engaging with a violent, masculinist, repetitive, and stupid bunch of artifacts.
Most of these people, they play FarmVille or Solitaire or Tetris or Snood to fill their time. At family gatherings, they're the first to drag out the Scrabble or Monopoly board. They don't quite recognize that games and videogames are already important to them, too.
Instead of getting flustered, now you've got a book to hand them (or, at the very least, you'll have a handy mental volume of examples and arguments to draw from). It will show them that there are games in between what they play and what "gamers" play, games that do things and explore all sorts of terrain that they didn't even know the medium could. Finally, it articulates a future for games and the people who play them that even you (as a gamer, developer, or scholar) probably haven't thought of before.
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