
Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction
by Egenfeldt-Nielsen; Simon-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
About the Reader | |
Structure of the Book | |
The Larger Questions | |
Studying Video Games | p. 7 |
Who Studies Video Games? | |
How do you Study Video Games? | |
Types of Analysis | |
Schools of Thought? | |
The Game Industry | p. 15 |
The Size of the Game Industry | |
The Structure of the Game Industry | |
The Development Process | |
Roles in Game Development | |
What is a Game? | p. 27 |
General Models for Understanding Games | |
The Issue of Genre | |
History | p. 53 |
A Brief Pre-history of Video Games | |
Does History Matter? | |
A History of Video Games | |
The 1970s | |
The 1980s | |
The 1990s | |
The 2000s | |
The 2010s and Beyond | |
Perspectives | |
Video Game Aesthetics | p. 117 |
Rules | |
Geography and Representation | |
Number of Players | |
Games without Boundaries | |
Video Games in Culture | p. 157 |
The Cultural Position of Video Games | |
Players | |
Narrative | p. 193 |
Storytelling | |
Reception-The Player's Experience of a Story | |
A Brief History of Literary Theory and Video Games | |
Serious Games-When Entertainment is Not Enough | p. 229 |
Traditional Games for Serious Purposes | |
Categorizing Educational Computer Games | |
The Rationale Behind Edutainment | |
The Instructional Approach to Edutainment | |
The Modern Approach to the Educational Use of Computer Games | |
The Educational Effectiveness of Video Games | |
Political Games and Newsgames | |
Advertainment | |
Gamification-Plug'n'Play Games for Real? | |
Games-for-change-Revolutionaries Rise | |
Final Remarks | |
Video Games and Risks | p. 255 |
Two Research Perspectives | |
The Active Media Perspective | |
The Active User Perspective | |
Other Questions | |
Final Remarks | |
Video Game Timeline | p. 281 |
Glossary | p. 285 |
Games Cited | p. 289 |
Bibliography | p. 295 |
Index | p. 315 |
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