Автор: Creveld Название: Wargames ISBN: 1107684420 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107684423 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3945.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: War and games have always been intimately related in many different ways. This book studies the history of wargames - from the Old Testament to computer games - and explores their development, their links to real warfare, and their role in human culture at large.
Название: Role-playing game studies ISBN: 0815369204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815369202 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8420.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection offers readers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, international, and transmedia examination of roleplaying games Each chapter includes key terms, sidebars with additional content, and recommended readings to help both students and postgraduates new to roleplaying games get the full scope of this interdisciplinary field.
Описание: For Johan Huizinga, play is the motor of humanity’s cultural development, and it has accompanied us through history. However, since the late 20th century, its influence has been more pervasive than ever before, and gamification has become a buzzword in social and cultural life. Hand in hand with this cultural turn, theories of Postmodernism emerged, also privileging interactive playful behavior. If play drives culture, understanding it is therefore understanding culture in Postmodern times.Many of the core concepts of Postmodern thought also inform the new medium of the pen&paper role-playing game that coalesced at about the same time as Postmodern theories, a symptom of and feeding into the processes of cultural change. Analyzing these language games beyond their entertainment value shows how current socio-political conditions affect the shifting dynamic and mutual relationship between individual and society. A deep exploration of the complex interrelationship between narrative, game, players, and society raises questions of authority, agency, and responsibility that provide insights into the crisis of engagement that we see in our societies, while at the same time offering a new and original appreciation of the socio-political potential in games as the leading medium of the 21st century.
Автор: Robert Andrew Dunn Название: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media Fandom ISBN: 1799833232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799833239 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 26195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Leisure time today is driven by fandom from sports fans to comic collectors, gamers, and cosplayers. Fandom has developed into a self-identifying social construct researchers are still attempting to understand. While some fandoms such as cosplayers are still developing, other fandoms, for instance the secondary sports fan, have been completely ignored. Fandom is an important facet in today's society with such enthusiasm and support shaping not only the fan but also society at large.
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media Fandom is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research that reviews some of the most exigent facets of today's fandom and highlights understudied cultures of fandom as well as emerging intricacies of established fandom. While promoting topics such as esports, influencer culture, and marketing trends, this publication explores both qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as the methods of social science and critical perspectives. This book is ideally designed for marketers, media strategists, brand managers, consumer behavior analysts, researchers, academics, and students.
Описание: Following on from the success of ‘The Kingdom is Ours’ English Civil War fast play rules set comes the first of its companion volumes ‘As Stubble to our Swords’. This new supplement is full of features and games ideas that build upon the existing rule system. English Civil War enthusiasts Andy Miles and Charles Singleton have created a series of highly playable scenarios and army lists to develop your forces from. The scenarios chosen aim to present the player with new games, whilst the army lists offer a fresh interpretation of the forces that fought in the conflict. Whilst written with the original set of rules in mind, the lists and scenarios are easily adaptable to other popular gaming systems. Some of the country’s leading figure painting experts also show their techniques in easy step by step guides.
Автор: Hergenrader Trent Название: Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers ISBN: 1350016667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350016668 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The digital technologies of the 21st century are reshaping how we experience storytelling. More than ever before, storylines from the world's most popular narratives cross from the pages of books to the movie theatre, to our television screens and in comic books series. Plots intersect and intertwine, allowing audiences many different entry points to the narratives. In this sometimes bewildering array of stories across media, one thing binds them together: their large-scale fictional world.
Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers describes how writers can co-create vast worlds for use as common settings for their own stories. Using the worlds of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, and Dungeons & Dragons as models, this book guides readers through a step-by-step process of building sprawling fictional worlds complete with competing social forces that have complex histories and yet are always evolving. It also shows readers how to populate a catalog with hundreds of unique people, places, and things that grow organically from their world, which become a rich repository of story making potential.
The companion website collaborativeworldbuilding.com features links to online resources, past worldbuilding projects, and an innovative card system designed to work with this book.
Название: War Games ISBN: 150135115X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501351150 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are war-themed titles that play out in what are framed as authentic real-world settings inspired by recent news headlines or drawn from history. While such games are marketed as authentic representations of war, they often provide a selective form of realism that eschews problematic, yet salient aspects of war. In addition, changes in the way Western states wage and frame actual wars makes contemporary conflicts increasingly resemble videogames when perceived from the vantage point of Western audiences.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from games studies, media and cultural studies, politics and international relations, and related fields to examine the complex relationships between military-themed videogames and real-world conflict, and to consider how videogames might deal with history, memory, and conflict in alternative ways. It asks: What is the role of videogames in the formation and negotiation of cultural memory of past wars? How do game narratives and designs position the gaming subject in relation to history, war and militarism? And how far do critical, anti-war/peace games offer an alternative or challenge to mainstream commercial titles?
Автор: DeBoer Chris Название: Oblivious Insight: Abel`s Journal of the Metaphysical ISBN: 1603073051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781603073059 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 2572.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A subscription-based book designed to help today`s podiatrist manage an ever-increasing flow of information. Compendium`s editorial team has studied hundreds of publications over the past year and identified the most significant articles in each subject area. Articles come from mainstream podiatric journals as well as those from related fields.
Автор: Robert Andrew Dunn Название: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media Fandom ISBN: 1799833240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799833246 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20236.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Leisure time today is driven by fandom from sports fans to comic collectors, gamers, and cosplayers. Fandom has developed into a self-identifying social construct researchers are still attempting to understand. While some fandoms such as cosplayers are still developing, other fandoms, for instance the secondary sports fan, have been completely ignored. Fandom is an important facet in today's society with such enthusiasm and support shaping not only the fan but also society at large.
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media Fandom is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research that reviews some of the most exigent facets of today's fandom and highlights understudied cultures of fandom as well as emerging intricacies of established fandom. While promoting topics such as esports, influencer culture, and marketing trends, this publication explores both qualitative and quantitative approaches as well as the methods of social science and critical perspectives. This book is ideally designed for marketers, media strategists, brand managers, consumer behavior analysts, researchers, academics, and students.
Описание: Fortnite: Battle Royale has taken the world by storm, combining the high-octane action of traditional shooters with the creative construction elements of sandbox games like Minecraft. With 50 million players and counting, competition is fierce, and strategy is essential. Once you jump from the Battle Bus onto the island below, there can be only one goal: survival. The Big Book of Fortnite has all the tips and tricks you need to master the melee, whether youre playing on a console, PC, or your phone. Illustrated with dozens of full-color screenshots, find essential information on big-picture offensive and defensive tactics, best practices for building, and indispensable combat techniques. Learn all about uncovering loot, optimizing weapons use, exploring map locations, establishing fortresses, and completing challenges—in solo, duo, or squad mode. This comprehensive guide is fully up to date and even includes features on top Twitch streamers and the many celebrities who are Fortnite superfans. The battle is on! Make sure youre the last player standing.
Автор: Fine, Gary Alan (Author) Название: Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds ISBN: 0226249441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226249445 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study analyzes the, often misunderstood, subculture of fantasy role-playing games such as `Dungeons and Dragons`.Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the behaviour of the players.
Описание: Global esports explores the recent surge of esports in the global scene and comprehensively discusses people’s understanding of this spectacle. By historicizing and institutionalizing esports, the contributors analyze the rapid growth of esports and its implications in culture and digital economy. Dal Yong Jin curates a discussion as to why esports has become a global phenomenon.
From games such as Spacewar to Starcraft to Overwatch, a key theme, distinguishing this collection from others, is a potential shift of esports from online to mobile gaming. The book addresses why many global game players and fans play and enjoy online and mobile games in professional game competitions, and therefore, they investigate the manner in which the transfer to, from and between online and mobile gaming culture is occurring in a specific subset of global youth.
The remaining focus identifies the major platforms used to enjoy esports, including broadcasting and smartphones. By analyzing these unexamined or less-discussed agendas, this book sheds light on the current debates on the growth of global esports culture.
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