An Introduction to Game Studies

Acknowledged authors Mayra, Frans wrote An Introduction to Game Studies comprising 208 pages back in 2008. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 141293446X and 9781412934466. Since then An Introduction to Game Studies textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 6.53 or rent at the marketplace.

An Introduction to Game Studies is a core textbook for game studies as an academic discipline, and is the comprehensive guide to the field. It introduces the student to the history and character of games studies as an analytical study of games in culture, and then moves to provide an overview of games as signifying and dynamic cultural constructs. This book shows how to analyze games by introducing the core analytical concepts in the contexts of games and game cultures of four periods. It covers the prehistory of games, the 70s, 80s, and 90s and also contemporary developments. Students will be introduced to both the theoretical core and the essential genres and classics of the subject.