Tempest: Geometries of Play (Landmark Video Games) - Hardcover

Ruggill, Judd Ethan; McAllister, Ken S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472072692 ISBN 13: 9780472072699

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Atari&;s 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a &;tube shooter&; built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game&;s initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed &;SkillStep&;), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games. In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze Tempest&;s landmark qualities, exploring the game&;s aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game&;s latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes.

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Judd Ethan Ruggill is Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University and co-directs the Learning Games Initiative with Ken McAllister.

Ken S. McAllister is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Innovation and Research at the University of Arizona.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0472072692
• ISBN 13: 9780472072699
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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