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Players Unleashed! : Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming /
It has been ten years since video game giant Electronic Arts first released The Sims, the best-selling game that allows its players to create a household and then manage every aspect of daily life within it. And since its debut, gamers young and old have found ways to "mod" The Sims, a pra...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | MediaMatters
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It has been ten years since video game giant Electronic Arts first released The Sims, the best-selling game that allows its players to create a household and then manage every aspect of daily life within it. And since its debut, gamers young and old have found ways to "mod" The Sims, a practice in which gamers manipulate the computer code of a game, and thereby alter it to add new content and scenarios. In Players Unleashed!-the first study of its kind-Tanja Sihvonen provides a fascinating examination of modding, tracing its evolution and detailing its impact on The Sims and the game industry as a whole. Along the way, Sihvonen shares insights into specific modifications and the cultural contexts from which they emerge. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (221 p.) : 16 halftones. |
| ISBN: | 9789048511983 9048511984 |