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More than a game : the computer game as fictional form / Barry Atkins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; 2003Distributor: New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Plagrave, 2003Description: 1 online resource (170 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 141757805X
  • 9781417578054
  • 1280734337
  • 9781280734335
  • 9780719063640
  • 0719063647
  • 9781847790392
  • 1847790399
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: More than a game.DDC classification:
  • 794.8 22
LOC classification:
  • GV1469.17.S63 A85 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The computer game as fictional form -- Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider -- Gritty realism: reading Half-Life -- Replaying history: reading Close Combat -- Managing the real: reading SimCity -- More than a game? -- Glossary of game-specific terms -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This is the first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. It considers the computer game as a new and emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in a fashion that is accessible and readable.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The computer game as fictional form -- Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider -- Gritty realism: reading Half-Life -- Replaying history: reading Close Combat -- Managing the real: reading SimCity -- More than a game? -- Glossary of game-specific terms -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is the first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. It considers the computer game as a new and emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in a fashion that is accessible and readable.

English.

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