Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment RevolutionThe Edge calls "Trigger Happy" a "seminal piece of work". For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years after the invention of the simplest of games, more videogames are played by adults than children. This revolutionary book is the first-ever academically worthy and deeply engaging critique of one of today's most popular forms of play: videogames are on track to supersede movies as the most innovative form of entertainment in the new century. |
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... look pretty real ; those trees at the side of the racetrack , waving gently in the wind , look satisfyingly ( arbo ) real . This turns out to be the subject of a fundamental tension in videogames , which will appear in many guises ...
... look pretty real ; those trees at the side of the racetrack , waving gently in the wind , look satisfyingly ( arbo ) real . This turns out to be the subject of a fundamental tension in videogames , which will appear in many guises ...
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... looks bigger , so you draw it bigger . But there are certain cases where view angle and plane projection do not tally . The ... look through something like a transparent picture plane , or window . ― tive , therefore , it should have an ...
... looks bigger , so you draw it bigger . But there are certain cases where view angle and plane projection do not tally . The ... look through something like a transparent picture plane , or window . ― tive , therefore , it should have an ...
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... look like a man , he looks like some- thing you'd stick on the rim of your glass of gin and tonic . ( Toru Iwatani in fact , as we learned , was inspired by partially eaten pizza . ) Nevertheless , the crude yellow shape is agreed to ...
... look like a man , he looks like some- thing you'd stick on the rim of your glass of gin and tonic . ( Toru Iwatani in fact , as we learned , was inspired by partially eaten pizza . ) Nevertheless , the crude yellow shape is agreed to ...
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