
Dungeons & dreamers : a story of how computer games created a global community /
Brad King
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
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Utgitt | [Pittsburgh, Pa.] : : ETC Press, , 2014.
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Omfang | 277 sider ;
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Utgave | Second edition.
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Opplysninger | Part I: The nexus. Inklings ; The dungeon master ; Machines at play ; ComputerLand ; The expansion pack ; Creative anachronism ; The British invasion ; Origin's story ; Brave new worlds ; The moral code ; Origin's endgame -- Part II: A seismic quake. id and ego ; Commander Keen and the way out ; Planting seeds ; The Doom connection ; Gamequake -- Part III: Connecting communities. Frag together ; The first superstar ; The women who fragged ; Feels like home ; A mod life -- Part IV: A darkness falls. Columbine ; Porn and the pinball wizards ; A virtual space to call one's own ; The very long trial of computer games ; Seduction of the game industry -- Part V: This is not a game. "We were not in control" ; A god deposed ; Knights of the guilded realm ; Proliferating worlds ; Worlds without ends -- Epilogue. The adventure's end -- Coda. Would you like to play again?
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ISBN | 0991222725. - 9780991222728
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