Video Game Spaces - Table of Contents

March 2009
6 x 9, 312 pp., 27 illus.
$35.00/£22.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-14101-9
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-14101-7

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Video Game Spaces
Image, Play, and Structure in 3D Worlds
Michael Nitsche

	Acknowledgments Sample Chapter - Download PDF (100 KB)	vii

1	Introduction Sample Chapter - Download PDF (282 KB)	1

I	Structure	23

2	Games and Rules	25

3	Defining Interaction	31

4	Defining Narrative	41

5	Combining Interaction and Narrative	47

II	Presentation	67

6	Games as Moving Images	69

7	Cinema and Game Spaces	79

8	Sound in Game Spaces	129

9	Effects of Narrative Filters	145

III	Functionality	157

10	Architectural Approaches	159

11	Examples of Spatial Structures in Game Spaces	171

12	Virtual Places	191

13	Players "in" the Video Game Space	203

14	Story Maps	227

15	Places of Shared Stories	233

	Bibliography	247

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (163 KB)	293

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