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Adventure Games

By Reed, Aaron A.

Adventure Games

By Reed, Aaron A.

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The genre of adventure games is frequently overlooked. Lacking the constantly-evolving graphics and graphic violence of their counterparts in first-person and third-person shooters or role-playing games, they are often marketed to and beloved by players outside of mainstream game communities. While often forgotten by both the industry and academia, adventure games have had (and continue to have) a surprisingly wide influence on contemporary games, in categories including walking simulators, hidden object games, visual novels, and bestselling titles from companies like Telltale and Campo Santo.
In this examination of heirs to the genre's legacy, the authors examine the genre from multiple perspectives, connecting technical analysis with critical commentary and social context. This will be the first book to consider this important genre from a comprehensive and transdisciplinary perspective. Drawing upon methods from platform studies, software studies, media studies, and literary studies, they reveal the genre's ludic and narrative origins and patterns, where character (and the player's embodiment of a character) is essential to the experience of play and the choices within a game. A deep structural analysis of adventure games also uncovers an unsteady balance between sometimes contradictory elements of story, exploration, and puzzles: with different games and creators employing a multitude of different solutions to resolving this tension.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2020-02-20
Publication Date:
2020-02-20
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501346547
ISBN13:
9781501346545
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
441 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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