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Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games (MIT Press)

In twiddling with Sound, Karen Collins examines online game sound from the player's point of view. She explores the numerous ways in which gamers engage with a game's sonic elements -- which come with not just tune but additionally sound results, ambient sound, discussion, and interface sounds -- either inside and outdoors of the sport.

Computer Games for Learning: An Evidence-Based Approach (MIT Press)

Many powerful claims are made for the academic worth of desktop video games, yet there's a desire for systematic exam of the learn proof that would aid such claims. This e-book fills that want by way of delivering, a complete and up to date research of what study indicates approximately studying with desktop video games.

An Odyssey into Video Games and Pop Culture: The Collected Garwulf's Corner from The Escapist and More

A pioneer in online game statement, Robert B. Marks used to be one of many first – if no longer the 1st – games concerns columnists within the English language. In March 2015 he again to take a clean new examine games and pa tradition. inspiration scary, debatable, and insightful – and with new introductions – this assortment includes:- All 29 installments of Garwulf’s nook from the pages of The Escapist, overlaying matters starting from outrage tradition to range to the tradition warfare over the Hugo Awards.

Playback – A Genealogy of 1980s British Videogames

Via interviews with builders, players, and newshounds studying the phenomena of bed room coding, arcade gaming, and layout wars, mapped onto enquiry into the seminal genres of the time together with using, capturing, and maze chase, Playback: A family tree of Eighties British Videogames examines how Eighties Britain has turn into the tradition of labor within the twenty first century and considers its desiring to modern society.