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portada Computer Games as Landscape Art
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
201
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
21.0 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9783031376337
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Computer Games as Landscape Art

Peter Nelson (Author) · Palgrave MacMillan · Hardcover

Computer Games as Landscape Art - Nelson, Peter

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Synopsis "Computer Games as Landscape Art"

This book proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, geography, game studies and play. Like paint on canvas, the game engine is taken as the underlying medium, and using the Valve Source Engine as the primary case study, it analyses landscapes according to the technical, economic and cultural features this medium affords. It presents the single-player first-person shooter (Half-Life 2) as a Promethean safari, examines how the economics of gambling and product placement shaped the eSports landscapes of Counter-Strike and reveals how sandboxes such as Garry's Mod visualise the radical landscape of Web 2.0. This book explores how our relationship to the environment is changing, how we express this through computer games and how we can move beyond examining artistic influences on games to examining how historical connections flow through games and the history of landscape images.

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