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Tempest : geometries of play / Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister
(Landmark video games)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource (154 pages) |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Reading Tempest A genealogy of Tempest Contexts Life after Tempest |
| Notes | "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."--Publisher's description Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record |
| Authors | *Ruggill, Judd Ethan. McAllister, Ken S., 1966- |
| Subjects | LCSH:Tempest (Video game) LCSH:Video games -- Design -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Video games -- United States. -- Social aspects All Subject Search FREE:Digital video: professional FREE:Information technology: general issues BISACSH:COMPUTERS -- General All Subject Search FREE:Tempest (Video game) FREE:Video games -- Design All Subject Search FREE:Video games -- Social aspects All Subject Search FREE:Videospiel FREE:Ästhetik FREE:Design FREE:United States BSH:Electronic books FREE:History FREE:History |
| Classification | DC23:794.8 |
| ID | ED00004258 |
| ISBN | 9780472900107 |