Handmade Pixels
Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity
$89.49
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2019
Summary
An investigation of independent video games-creative, personal, strange, and experimental-and their claims to handcrafted authenticity in a purely digital medium.Video games are often dismissed as mere entertainment products created by faceless corporations. The last twenty years, however, have seen the rise of independent, or “indie,” video games- a wave of small, cheaply developed, experimental, and personal video games that react against mainstream video game development and culture. In Ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262042796 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262042797 |
| Author: | Jesper Juul |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 922g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 22mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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“Jesper Juul is one of the great gaming thinkers and historians.”
—Polygon
About The Author
Jesper Juul
Jesper Juul is Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He is the author of Half-Real- Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds; A Casual Revolution- Reinventing Video Games and Their Players; and The Art of Failure- An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games, all published by the MIT Press.
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