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Building Simcity - How To Put The World In A Machine

de Chaim Gingold

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 A deep dive into the trailblazing simulation game SimCity, situating it in the history of games, simulation, and computing.Building SimCity explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever made: SimCity. As author Chaim Gingold explains, Will Wright, the visionary designer behind the urban planning game, created SimCity in part to learn about cities, thinking about the world as a complex system and appropriating ideas from traditions in which computers are used for modeling. As such, SimCity is a microcosm of the histories and cultures of computer simulation that engages with questions, themes, and representational techniques that reach back to the earliest computer simulations.Gingold uses SimCity to explore a web of interrelated topics in the history of technology, software, and simulation, taking us far and wide—from the dawn of programmable computers to miniature cities made of construction paper and role-play. An unprecedented history of Maxis, the company founded to bring SimCity to market, the book reveals Maxis''s complex relations with venture capitalists, Nintendo, and the Santa Fe Institute, which shaped the evolution of Will Wright''s career; Maxis''s failure to back The Sims to completion; and the company''s sale to Electronic Arts.A lavishly visual book, Building SimCity boasts a treasure trove of visual matter to help bring its wide-ranging subjects to life, including painstakingly crafted diagrams that explain SimCity''s operation, the Kodachrome photographs taken by Charles Eames of schoolchildren making model cities, and Nintendo''s manga-style "Dr. Wright" character design, just to name a few.
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Playing At The World, 2e - The Invention Of Dungeons & Dragons

de Jon Peterson

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 The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
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Game Wizards - The Epic Battle For Dungeons & Dragons

de Jon Peterson

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 The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators.When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success—and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass-market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game''s fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson—a noted authority on role-playing games—explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies.Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson''s first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson''s acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR''s reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax''s losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D.With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.
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Homebrew Gaming And The Beginnings Of Vernacular Digitality

de Melanie Swalwell

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 The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users.From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines—including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges—was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instance of the early appropriation of digital computing technology.Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research on homebrew creators in 1980s Australia and New Zealand, Swalwell explores the creation of games on microcomputers as a particular mode of everyday engagement with new technology. She discusses the public discourses surrounding microcomputers and programming by home coders; user practices; the development of game creators'' ideas, with the game Donut Dilemma as a case study; the widely practiced art of hardware hacking; and the influence of 8-bit aesthetics and gameplay on the contemporary game industry. With Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality, Swalwell reclaims a lost chapter in video game history, connecting it to the rich cultural and media theory around everyday life and to critical perspectives on user-generated content
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Elusive Shift - How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity

de Jon Peterson

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 "Peterson animates the history of role-playing games found in zines, from the collision of the niche audiences of war gaming and fantasy in the 60s to the extreme commercial growth of D&D in the 80s"--
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Gaming The Iron Curtain - How Teenagers And Amateurs In Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed The Medium Of Computer Games

de Jaroslav Svelch

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 How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression.
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Zones Of Control - Perspectives On Wargaming

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 Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
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Debugging Game History - A Critical Lexicon

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 Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
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Cloud Computing, Revised And Updated Edition

de Nayan B. Ruparelia

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Open Minded - Searching For Truth About The Unconscious Mind

de Ben R. Newell e David R. Shanks

58,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Mnemonic Ecologies - Memory And Nature Conservation Along The Former Iron Curtain

de Sonja K. Pieck

58,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Arcade Britannia - A Social History Of The British Amusement Arcade

de Alan Meades

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Debugging Game History - A Critical Lexicon

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Constructing Student Mobility - How Universities Recruit Students And Shape Pathways Between Berkeley And Seoul

de Stephanie K. Kim

48,93€

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The Real World Of College - What Higher Education Is And What It Can Be

de Howard Gardner e Wendy Fischman

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Combating Inequality - Rethinking Government'S Role

de Dani Rodrik e Olivier Blanchard

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Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, And Beyond - The Life Of Astronomer Vera Rubin

de Ashley Jean Yeager

27,04€

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How We Give Now - A Philanthropic Guide For The Rest Of Us

de Lucy Bernholz

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Methuselah'S Zoo - What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives

de Steven N. Austad

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The Blockchain And The New Architecture Of Trust

de Kevin Werbach

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Overgrown - Practices Between Landscape Architecture And Gardening

de Fiona Harrisson e Julian Raxworthy

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Plastics

de Imari Walker-Franklin e Jenna Jambeck

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The Napoleon Of Notting Hill

de G.K. Chesterton e Madeline Ashby

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Lifelines Of Our Society - A Global History Of Infrastructure

de Dirk Van Laak e Paul N. Edwards

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