Gamers: Ghosts in the Machine - Softcover

Croucher, Mel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1068231440 ISBN 13: 9781068231445

Verlag: Extremis Publishing Ltd., 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The twenty ghosts in the machine who created the biggest entertainment industry the world has ever known. This book tells their remarkable stories in their own words for the very first time, embracing genius, love, loss, addiction, murder, suicide, and a whole lot of fun. Written by the founder of the British computer games industry.

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Mel Croucher is the acknowledged founder of the British computer games industry. Originally an architect, he moved into gaming "as a deep fake to force my music on the public." Three-time winner of the Game Of The Year Award, he pioneered radio broadcasts of computer software, geocache gaming, in-game voice artists, interactive soap opera, real-world adventure quests, adware product placement, the first computer-generated movie, the first AI virtual companion and the first million-user viral marketing campaign. He is the author of text books, technical manuals, fiction and non-fiction, and more than a thousand of his columns, investigations and cartoon strips have appeared in print over six decades.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Extremis Publishing Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1068231440
• ISBN 13: 9781068231445
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland