Introduction to Game Analysis | Media & Cultural Studies

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This accessible third edition textbook gives students the tools they need to analyze games using strategies borrowed from textual analysis. As game studies has become an established academic field writing about games needs the language and methods that allow authors to reflect the complexity of a game and how it is played in a cultural context. This volume provides readers with an overview of the basic building blocks of game analysis-examination of context content and distinctive features and formal qualities-as well as the vocabulary necessary to talk about the distinguishing characteristics of a game. Examples are drawn from a range of games non-digital and digital and across history-fro…