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  • Shigeru Miyamoto

    Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda

    Series series Influential Video Game Designers
    Video games are considered by many to be just entertainment-essentially void of skillful, artistic intervention. But as any gamer knows, there's incredible technical and graphic talent behind even a flickering Gameboy screen.You may have never heard Shigeru Miyamoto's name, but you've probably spent many a lazy afternoon absorbed in his work. Joining Nintendo as a video game designer in the late ... Read more

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  • Civic Engagement in Global Contexts

    International Education, Community Partnerships, and Higher Education

    Edited by Jim Bowman, Jennifer deWinter ...
    This volume examines the role of writing, rhetoric, and literacy programs and approaches in the practice of civic engagement in global contexts. Writing programs have experience in civic engagement and service learning projects in their local communities, and their work is central to developing students’ literacy practices. Further, writing programs compel student writers to attend to audience ... Read more

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  • Video Game Policy

    Production, Distribution, and Consumption

    Series series Routledge Advances in Game Studies
    This book analyzes the effect of policy on the digital game complex: government, industry, corporations, distributors, players, and the like. Contributors argue that digital games are not created nor consumed outside of the complex power relationships that dictate the full production and distribution cycles, and that we need to consider those relationships in order to effectively "read" and ... Read more

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  • Computer Games and Technical Communication

    Critical Methods and Applications at the Intersection

    Series series Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture
    Taking as its point of departure the fundamental observation that games are both technical and symbolic, this collection investigates the multiple intersections between the study of computer games and the discipline of technical and professional writing. Divided into five parts, Computer Games and Technical Communication engages with questions related to workplace communities and gamic simulations ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Gaming Representation

    Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games

    Series series Digital Game Studies
    Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these critiques, but scholarly discussion of representation in games has lagged far ... Read more

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  • Super Mario

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    The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possible.Nintendo has continually set the standard for video-game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has plot twists worthy of a video game. Jeff Ryan shares ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy

    I Link Therefore I Am

    by Luke Cuddy ...
    Series Book 36 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
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  • The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1

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  • Complete Minecraft Guide: Redstone, House,Cheats, Tips, And More! (Includes Enchanting, Cooking, Crafting Guide)

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