Palgrave Games in Context

Swalwell, Melanie

This book brings together essays on game history and historiography that reflect on the significance of locality. Game history did not unfold uniformly and the particularities of space and place matter, yet most digital game and software histories are silent with respect to geography. Topics covered include: hyper-local games; temporal anomalies in platform arrival and obsolescence; national videogame workforces; player memories of the places of gameplay; comparative reception studies of a platform; the erasure of cultural markers; the localization of games; and perspectives on the future development of ‘local’ game history.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-05-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030664213

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66422-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 240