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Game History and the Local (Palgrave Games in Context) - Hardcover

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9783030664213: Game History and the Local (Palgrave Games in Context)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 303066421X ISBN 13: 9783030664213
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.

Chapters 1 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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About the Author

Melanie Swalwell is Professor of Digital Media Heritage at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is the author of Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality (2021), and co-editor of Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives (2017) and The Pleasures of Computer Gaming (2008).

From the Back Cover

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.


Chapters 1 and 12 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
303066421X
ISBN 13 
9783030664213
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
255
Editor
Swalwell Melanie