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“vincent hui”

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  • Architecture and Videogames

    Intersecting Worlds

    Edited by Vincent Hui, Ryan Scavnicky, Tatiana Estrina ...
    This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.With contributions from authorities in both architecture and videogame industries, it examines how videogames as a medium have enlightened the public about the built environments of the past, offered heightened awareness of our current urban context, and ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • The Architecture Portfolio Guidebook

    The Essentials You Need to Succeed

    by Vincent Hui ...
    The Architecture Portfolio Guidebook shows you how to make portfolios for both academic and professional needs to provide reviewers exactly what they are looking for. In school, architecture curricula nurture the knowledge and skills to develop design work to varying levels of presentation. In the profession, those skills are further developed and applied in the creation of the built environment. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    by Celia Pearce ...
    The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of the Digital Humanities

    by Steven E. Jones ...
    The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world.In The ... Read more

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  • Metagaming

    Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

    by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as “games about games,” metagames implicate a diverse range of practices that stray outside the boundaries and bend the rules: from technical glitches and forbidden strategies to Renaissance painting, algorithmic trading, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • How to Play Video Games

    Edited by Matthew Thomas Payne, Nina B. Huntemann ...
    Series Book 1 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    Forty original contributions on games and gaming cultureWhat does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Online Gaming in Context

    The social and cultural significance of online games

    Edited by Garry Crawford, Victoria K Gosling, Ben Light ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    There is little question of the social, cultural and economic importance of video games in the world today, with gaming now rivalling the movie and music sectors as a major leisure industry and pastime. The significance of video games within our everyday lives has certainly been increased and shaped by new technologies and gaming patterns, including the rise of home-based games consoles, advances ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Videogames

    by James Newman ...
    In the few decades since they first blipped their way onto television screens, videogames have become one of the most culturally, socially and economically significant media forms. Newman’s volume considers how we might approach videogames as media texts to be read, experiences to be played and played with, systems and simulations to be decoded and interrogated, and performances to be captured, ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of Video Games

    Gaming and Textual Strategies

    by Steven E. Jones ...
    The Meaning of Video Games takes a textual studies approach to an increasingly important form of expression in today’s culture. It begins by assuming that video games are meaningful–not just as sociological or economic or cultural evidence, but in their own right, as cultural expressions worthy of scholarly attention. In this way, this book makes a contribution to the study of video games, but it ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Role-Playing Game Studies

    Transmedia Foundations

    Edited by Sebastian Deterding, José Zagal ...
    This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • Digital Art (Fourth) (World of Art)

    by Christiane Paul ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art’s most exciting and dynamic forms of practice.Digital art, along with the technological developments of its medium, has rapidly evolved from the "digital revolution" into the social media era and then to the postdigital and post-Internet landscape. This new, expanded edition of Christiane Paul’s acclaimed book ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Video Game Theory Reader 2

    Edited by Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf ...
    The Video Game Theory Reader 2 picks up where the first Video Game Theory Reader (Routledge, 2003) left off, with a group of leading scholars turning their attention to next-generation platforms-the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360-and to new issues in the rapidly expanding field of video games studies. The contributors are some of the most renowned scholars working on video games ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD