Game History and the Local (Palgrave Games in Context) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 303066421X ISBN 13: 9783030664213

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.

Chapters 1 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Melanie Swalwell is Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is the author of Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality (2021), and co-editor of Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives (2017) and The Pleasures of Computer Gaming (2008).

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This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.

Chapters 1 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 303066421X
• ISBN 13: 9783030664213
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255
• Herausgeber: Swalwell Melanie
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