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The Composition of Video Games

Author : Johansen Quijano
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673934
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Composition of Video Games written by Johansen Quijano and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games are a complex, compelling medium in which established art forms intersect with technology to create an interactive text. Visual arts, architectural design, music, narrative and rules of play all find a place within, and are constrained by, computer systems whose purpose is to create an immersive player experience. In the relatively short life of video game studies, many authors have approached the question of how games function, some focusing on technical aspects of game design, others on rules of play. Taking a holistic view, this study explores how ludology, narratology, visual rhetoric, musical theory and player psychology work (or don't work) together to create a cohesive experience and to provide a unified framework for understanding video games.

The Composition of Video Games

Author : Johansen Quijano
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637156
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Composition of Video Games written by Johansen Quijano and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games are a complex, compelling medium in which established art forms intersect with technology to create an interactive text. Visual arts, architectural design, music, narrative and rules of play all find a place within, and are constrained by, computer systems whose purpose is to create an immersive player experience. In the relatively short life of video game studies, many authors have approached the question of how games function, some focusing on technical aspects of game design, others on rules of play. Taking a holistic view, this study explores how ludology, narratology, visual rhetoric, musical theory and player psychology work (or don't work) together to create a cohesive experience and to provide a unified framework for understanding video games.

Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games

Author : R. Colby
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349455621
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games written by R. Colby and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric teacher-scholars, who theorize, and contextualize how computer/video games enrich writing practices within and beyond the classroom and the teaching of writing.

Game Sound

Author : Karen Collins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203378X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Game Sound written by Karen Collins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguishing feature of video games is their interactivity, and sound plays an important role in this: a player's actions can trigger dialogue, sound effects, ambient sound, and music. This book introduces readers to the various aspects of game audio, from its development in early games to theoretical discussions of immersion and realism.

Composing Music for Games

Author : Chance Thomas
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315318628
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Composing Music for Games written by Chance Thomas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composing Music for Games is a guidebook for launching and maintaining a successful career as a video game composer. It offers a pragmatic approach to learning, intensified through challenging project assignments and simulations. Author Chance Thomas begins with the foundation of scoring principles applicable to all media, and then progresses serially through core methodologies specific to video game music. This book offers a powerful blend of aesthetic, technique, technology and business, which are all necessary components for a successful career as a video game composer.

How to Play Video Games

Author : Nina Huntemann
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479827983
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book How to Play Video Games written by Nina Huntemann and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty original contributions on games and gaming culture What does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building? From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving technological reality. Unlike other media technologies, video games demand engagement like no other, which begs the question—what is the role that video games play in our lives, from our homes, to our phones, and on global culture writ large? How to Play Video Games brings together forty original essays from today’s leading scholars on video game culture, writing about the games they know best and what they mean in broader social and cultural contexts. Read about avatars in Grand Theft Auto V, or music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. See how Age of Empires taught a generation about postcolonialism, and how Borderlands exposes the seedy underbelly of capitalism. These essays suggest that understanding video games in a critical context provides a new way to engage in contemporary culture. They are a must read for fans and students of the medium.

Writing Interactive Music for Video Games

Author : Michael Sweet
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0133563510
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Writing Interactive Music for Video Games written by Michael Sweet and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is a must read for newcomers and experienced composers wanting to learn more about the art of video game composition.” —Chuck Doud, Director of Music, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios All You Need to Know to Create Great Video Game Music Written by the developer of Berklee School of Music’s pioneering game scoring program, this guide covers everything professional composers and music students need to know about composing interactive music for video games, and contains exclusive tools for interactive scoring—tools that were previously available only at Berklee. Drawing on twenty years of professional experience in the game industry, Michael Sweet helps you master the unique language of music storytelling in games. Next, he walks you through the entire music composition process, from initial conceptualization and creative direction through implementation. Inside, you’ll find dozens of examples that illustrate adaptive compositional techniques, from small downloadable games to multimillion dollar console titles. In addition, this guide covers the business side of video game composition, sharing crucial advice about contracts, pricing, sales, and marketing. Coverage includes Overcoming the unique challenges of writing for games Composing music that can adapt in real time to player actions Developing thematic ideas Using audio middleware to create advanced interactive scores Working effectively with game development teams Understanding the life of a video game composer Managing contracts, rights, estimating, and negotiation Finding work The companion website contains software tools to help you master interactive music concepts explored in this book, with additional resources and links to learn more about scoring for games. See Appendix A for details.

Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games

Author : R. Colby
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137307676
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games written by R. Colby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric teacher-scholars, who theorize, and contextualize how computer/video games enrich writing practices within and beyond the classroom and the teaching of writing.

Music In Video Games

Author : K.J. Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134692110
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Music In Video Games written by K.J. Donnelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days as little more than a series of monophonic outbursts to its current-day scores that can rival major symphonic film scores, video game music has gone through its own particular set of stylistic and functional metamorphoses while both borrowing and recontextualizing the earlier models from which it borrows. With topics ranging from early classics like Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. to more recent hits like Plants vs. Zombies, the eleven essays in Music in Video Games draw on the scholarly fields of musicology and music theory, film theory, and game studies, to investigate the history, function, style, and conventions of video game music.

Making Videogames

Author : Duncan Harris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050002314X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Videogames written by Duncan Harris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth visual guide presenting the detailed creative journeys behind the development of the world’s leading videogames. Making Videogames is an extraordinary snapshot of modern interactive entertainment, with insight from pioneers about the most important games in the industry. Illustrated with some of the most arresting in-game images ever seen in print, this book explores the unique alchemy of a technical and artistic endeavor striking a captivating balance between insider insight and accessibility. Across twelve chapters, each focusing on a specific game from AAA blockbusters such as Control and Half-Life: Alyx to cult breakthrough games including No Man’s Sky and Return of the Obra Dinn, this volume documents the incredible craft of videogame worldbuilding. These chapters present masterful visual storytelling via the world’s most popular, but seldom fully understood, entertainment medium. Demonstrating the magic and method behind each studio’s work, the book includes enlightening text by Alex Wiltshire complementing specially created imagery “photographed” in-engine by screen capture artist Duncan Harris. A book for die-hard videogame fanatics, aspiring designer-creatives, video game developers, and the visually curious alike, Making Videogames will showcase the boundless creativity of this thrilling industry.

Video Game Writing

Author : Maurice Suckling
Publisher : Mercury Learning and Information
ISBN 13 : 1683920309
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Video Game Writing written by Maurice Suckling and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful, revised book explores the challenging and evolving world of the games writer. Part I provides a fascinating overview of the history of games writing following its humble roots in the '60s to today’s triple-A titles; Part II asks and answers the key question: what does a games writer do and how do they do it? Especially useful reading for novice game writers, its chapters cover a broad range of topics including contracts, NDAs, creative collaboration, narrative design, editing, adaptations, and environmental storytelling. Part III, of particular value for more advanced students of writing, addresses deeper theoretical questions increasingly relevant in today’s games titles, including: "Why have story at all? What is plot and how does it work? How best can a writer use agency?" Finally, Part IV presents readers with hard-earned nuggets of wisdom from today’s game writers working in the US, Europe, and Japan. Packed with practical samples, case studies, and exercises, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of games writing. Features: • Covers history of games writing, narrative design, storytelling, plot, contracts, and packed with practical samples, case studies, and exercises • Presents readers with opinions and suggestions from today’s game writers who are working in the US, Europe, and Japan • Includes a broad range of topics e.g., creative collaboration, editing, adaptations, and environmental storytelling • Mentions games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Borderlands 2, The Walking Dead, L.A. Noire, Grand Theft Auto V, Mass Effect 3, The Stanley Parable, The Last of Us, Alien Isolation, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Life is Strange, Until Dawn, Quantum Break, BioShock, World of Warcraft, and more.

Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari

Author : Colin Cremin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317407008
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari written by Colin Cremin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Videogames are a unique artistic form, and to analyse and understand them an equally unique language is required. Cremin turns to Deleuze and Guattari’s non-representational philosophy to develop a conceptual toolkit for thinking anew about videogames and our relationship to them. Rather than approach videogames through a language suited to other media forms, Cremin invites us to think in terms of a videogame plane and the compositions of developers and players who bring them to life. According to Cremin, we are not simply playing videogames, we are creating them. We exceed our own bodily limitations by assembling forces with the elements they are made up of. The book develops a critical methodology that can explain what every videogame, irrespective of genre or technology, has in common and proceeds on this basis to analyse their differences. Drawing from a wide range of examples spanning the history of the medium, Cremin discerns the qualities inherent to those regarded as classics and what those qualities enable the player to do. Exploring Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari analyses different aspects of the medium, including the social and cultural context in which videogames are played, to develop a nuanced perspective on gendered narratives, caricatures and glorifications of war. It considers the processes and relationships that have given rise to industrial giants, the spiralling costs of making videogames and the pressure this places developers under to produce standard variations of winning formulas. The book invites the reader to embark on a molecular journey through worlds neither ‘virtual’ nor ‘real’ exceeding image, analogy and metaphor. With clear explanations and detailed analysis, Cremin demonstrates the value of a Deleuzian approach to the study of videogames, making it an accessible and valuable resource for students, scholars, developers and enthusiasts.

The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice

Author : Steve Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351399470
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice written by Steve Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice offers a critical reassessment of embodiment and materiality in rhetorical considerations of videogames. Holmes argues that rhetorical and philosophical conceptions of "habit" offer a critical resource for describing the interplay between thinking (writing and rhetoric) and embodiment. The book demonstrates how Aristotle's understanding of character (ethos), habit (hexis), and nature (phusis) can productively connect rhetoric to what Holmes calls "procedural habits": the ways in which rhetoric emerges from its interactions with the dynamic accumulation of conscious and nonconscious embodied experiences that consequently give rise to meaning, procedural subjectivity, control, and communicative agency both in digital game design discourse and the activity of play.

I'd Rather Be Playing Video Games Composition Book Wide Ruled 100 Pages (7. 44 X 9. 69)

Author : Gamer Notebooks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781723395123
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book I'd Rather Be Playing Video Games Composition Book Wide Ruled 100 Pages (7. 44 X 9. 69) written by Gamer Notebooks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool composition book for elementary or middle school student. Wide rule lined perfect bound notebook sized 7.44" x 9.69" (18.9 x 24.61 cm) featuring white exercise writing paper with grey lines and margin. Perfect back to school gift for student. Great notebook for school assignments, creative writing, poetry, and dreams.

Writing Interactive Music for Video Games

Author : Michael Sweet
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321961587
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Writing Interactive Music for Video Games written by Michael Sweet and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2015 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete guide to composing interactive scores for video games. Authored by the developer of Berklee College of Music's pioneering Game Audio program, it covers everything professional composers and music students need to know, and contains exclusive tools for interactive scoring previously available only at Berklee. Drawing on his experience as an award-winning video game composer and in teaching hundreds of music students, the author brings together comprehensive knowledge presented in no other book.

The Book of Games

Author : Bendik Stang
Publisher : Gamexplore N.A. Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9788299737838
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Games written by Bendik Stang and published by Gamexplore N.A. Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores more than one hundred of the latest and most exciting video games, providing information of great interest to gamers and parents. Sorted by genre, each game is presented on a two-page spread including an informative game summary with challenges and hints, a description of key gameplay activities, average game score, parental age information and game complexity. Nine illustrative screen shots show the game in action; and if you like what you see, check out the list of similar games at the bottom of each page"--Publisher's website (viewed April 21, 2008).

Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives

Author : Valentine, Keri Duncan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522502629
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives written by Valentine, Keri Duncan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With complex stories and stunning visuals eliciting intense emotional responses, coupled with opportunities for self-expression and problem solving, video games are a powerful medium to foster empathy, critical thinking, and creativity in players. As these games grow in popularity, ambition, and technological prowess, they become a legitimate art form, shedding old attitudes and misconceptions along the way. Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives asks whether videogames have the power to transform a player and his or her beliefs from a sociopolitical perspective. Unlike traditional forms of storytelling, videogames allow users to immerse themselves in new worlds, situations, and politics. This publication surveys the landscape of videogames and analyzes the emergent gaming that shifts the definition and cultural effects of videogames. This book is a valuable resource to game designers and developers, sociologists, students of gaming, and researchers in relevant fields.