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Tempest

Geometries of Play

By: Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister

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Tempest

Geometries of Play

By: Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister

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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University of Michigan Press

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0472900102

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Gaming Matters

Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium

By: Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister

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Gaming Matters

Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium

By: Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister

In Gaming Matters, McAllister and Ruggill turn from the broader discussion of video game rhetoric to study the video game itself as a medium and the specific features that give rise to games as similar and yet diverse as Pong, Tomb Raider, and Halo.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817317376

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9780817317379

Inside the Video Game Industry

Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play

By: Judd Ruggill,Ken McAllister,Randy Nichols,Ryan Kaufman

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Inside the Video Game Industry

Game Developers Talk About the Business of Play

By: Judd Ruggill,Ken McAllister,Randy Nichols,Ryan Kaufman

Inside the Video Game Industry offers a provocative look into one of today's most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality assurance, audio and business professions. From hiring and firing conventions, attitudes about gender disparity, goals for work-life balance, and a span of legal, psychological, and communal intellectual property protection mechanisms, the book's combination of accessible industry talk and incisive thematic overviews is ideal for anyone interested in games as a global industry, a site of cultural study, or a prospective career path. Designed for researchers, educators, and students, this book provides a critical perspective on an often opaque business and its highly mobile workforce. Additional teaching materials, including activities and study questions, can be found at https://www.routledge.com/9780415828284.

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Routledge

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1134076584

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9781134076581

Gaming Matters

Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium

By: Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister

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Art, Science, Magic, and the Computer Game Medium

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Tempest

Geometries of Play

By: Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister

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Geometries of Play

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