The video game industry : formation, present state, and future / edited by Peter Zackariasson and Timothy L. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Timothy L.

Zackariasson, Peter, 1972-

Series:

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; 24.

RIOT! Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games industry--History.

Video games industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Video Game Industry provides a platform for the research on the video game industry to draw a coherent and informative picture of this industry. Previously this has been done sparsely through conference papers, research articles, and popular science books. Although the study of this industry is still stigmatized as frivolous and 'only' game oriented, those who grew up with video games are changing things, especially research agendas, the acceptance of studies, and their interpretation. This book describes and defines video games as their own special medium. They are not pinball from which they grew, nor movies which they sometimes resemble. They are a unique form of entertainment based on meaningful interactions between individuals and machine across a growing sector of the population. The Video Game Industry provides a reference foundation for individuals seriously interested in the industry at the academic level. As a result, this book will serve as a reference in curricula associated with video game development for years to come.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Peter Zackariasson and Timothy L. Wilson

This is not a software industry / Casey O'Donnell

Video games : a subcultural industry / Mikolaj Dymek

Marketing of video games / Peter Zackariasson and Timothy L. Wilson

An exploration of the mobile gaming ecosystem from developers' perspective / Claudio Feijo

The North American game industry / Casey O'Donnell

The UK and Irish game industries / Aphra Kerr

The development of the Swedish game industry : a true success story? / Ulf Sandqvist

Console hardware : the development of Nintendo WII / Mirko Ernkvist

"Warm and stuffy" : the ecological impact of electronic games / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller

Gamification as the post-modern phalanstre is the gamification playing with us or are we playing with gamification? / Flavio Escribano

The evolving European video games software ecosystem / Giuditta De Prato, Sven Lindmark and Jean-Paul Simon

Through the looking glass sharply / Timothy L. Wilson and Peter Zackariasson

Notes on contributors

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-25824-8

1-283-58570-7

9786613898159

1-136-25825-6

0-203-10649-0

9780203106495

OCLC:

922958920