| Autore |
Sotamaa Olli
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam University Press, 2021
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (356 p.)
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| Disciplina |
338.4/77948
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| Collana |
Games and Play
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| Soggetto topico |
Video games industry
Video games - Design
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| Soggetto non controllato |
video games, production studies, game industry
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| ISBN |
90-485-5173-0
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Why Game Production Matters? -- Contributors -- Labour -- 1. Hobbyist Game Making Between Self-Exploitation and Self- Emancipation -- 2. Self-Making and Game Making in the Future of Work -- 3. Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Circulations and Biographies of French Game Workers in a 'Global Games' Era -- 4. Intermediating the Everyday : Indie Game Development and the Labour of Co-Working Spaces -- Development -- 5. Game Developers Playing Games : Instrumental Play, Game Talk, and Preserving the Joy of Play -- 6. Game Development Live on Twitch : Observations of Practice and Educational Synergies -- 7. Unity Production: Capturing the Everyday Game Maker Market -- 8. More Than One Flop from Bankruptcy : Rethinking Sustainable Independent Game Development -- Publishing & Monetization -- 9. How to Study Game Publishers: Activision Blizzard's Corporate History -- 10. Who Creates Microtransactions : The Production Context of Video Game Monetization -- 11. Regulating In-Game Monetization : Implications of Regulation on Games Production -- Regional Perspectives -- 12. Promises of the Periphery : Producing Games in the Communist and Transformation-Era Czechoslovakia -- 13. Construction and Negotiation of Entrepreneurial Subjectivities in the Polish Video Game Industry -- 14. The Development of Greater China's Games Industry : From Copying to Imitation to Innovation -- Before and After: Towards Inclusive Production Studies, Theories, and Methods -- Complete Bibliography -- Index
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| Record Nr. | UNISA-996418943803316 |
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Game production studies / / ed. by Jan Svelch, Olli Sotamaa
