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How to Talk about Videogames /

Delving into popular, familiar games like Flappy Birds, Mirror's Edge, Mario Kart, Scribblenauts, Ms. Pac-Man, FarmVille, Candy Crush Saga, Bully, Medal of Honor, Madden NFL, and more, Ian Bogost posits that videogames are as much like appliances as they are like art and media. We don't wa...

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Autor principal: Bogost, Ian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Nobody asked for a toaster critic -- The squalid grace of Flappy Bird -- A portrait of the artist as a game studio -- The Blue Shell is everything that's wrong with America -- Little Black Sambo, I'm going to eat you up! -- Can a gobbler have it all? -- Racketeer sports -- The haute couture of videogames -- Can the other come out and play? -- A way of looking -- Free speech is not a marketing plan -- Shaking the Holocaust train -- The long shot -- Puzzling the sublime -- Work is the best place to goof off -- A trio of artisanal reviews -- What is a sports videogame? -- The agony of mastery -- The abyss between the human and the alpine -- Word games last forever -- Perpetual adolescence -- Conclusion: Anything but games. 
520 |a Delving into popular, familiar games like Flappy Birds, Mirror's Edge, Mario Kart, Scribblenauts, Ms. Pac-Man, FarmVille, Candy Crush Saga, Bully, Medal of Honor, Madden NFL, and more, Ian Bogost posits that videogames are as much like appliances as they are like art and media. We don't watch or read games like we do films and novels and paintings, nor do we perform them like we might dance or play football or Frisbee. Rather, we do something in between with games. Games are devices we operate, so game critique is both serious cultural currency and self-parody. Nothing that the term game criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture, severing it from the "rivers and fields" that sustain it. As essential as it is, he calls for its pursuit to unfold in this spirit: "God save us from a future of game critics, gnawing on scraps like the zombies that fester in our objects of study." 
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