The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games - Hardcover

Bitmap Books

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1999353307 ISBN 13: 9781999353308

Publisher: Bitmap Books, 2019

Synopsis

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games

Spread over more than 500 pages, The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games reviews over 400 seminal games from 1975 to 2015, covering the role-playing classics we all know and love such as Ultima, Wizardry, Fallout and Mass Effect all brought to life with vibrant and engaging in-game images. Each entry also shares articles on the genre, mod suggestions and hints on how to run the games on modern hardware. The book is completely by written by fans, AAA developers, indies, journalists, modders and industry personalities such as Chris Avellone, Ian Frazier, Scorpia, Ferhegon, Richard Cobbett, Brian 'Psychochild' Green, Durante, George Weidman and Tim Cain, to name but a few.

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games comes as a hardback as standard and uses thread sewn binding for extra durability. Each copy is then shrink wrapped. The cover features a specially created artwork by fantasy artist Jan Pospisil.

In line with the project's non-profit nature, all of the author's profit will be donated to the Vocacao charity in Brazil, where the books author, Felipe Pepe comes from. Vocacao helps kids and teenagers from poor areas to get education and employment, who then go on to help others around them to do the same, changing the community for the better.

Book specifications: 528 pages, 254mm x 203mm, Lithographic print, Hardback, Sewn binding, Gold foil blocked cover and spine, shrink wrapped.

About this title

About the Author

Founded by graphic designer Sam Dyer, Bitmap Books is an award winning independent publisher of retro gaming books covering the early days of home computers and consoles. Its sumptuous, high-quality books are presented as a visual celebration of the genre, enabling you to relive this golden age of video games. Each volume is filled with interviews, quotes and anecdotes from the artists, programmers and publishers that created the games. Bitmap Books is intent on producing the very finest products, using the best printers working to the highest standards. The books themselves are perfect-bound using thread for maximum durability.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bitmap Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1999353307
• ISBN 13: 9781999353308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528