Game Studies

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Fun, Taste, & Games

Fun, Taste, & Games

Transgression in Games and Play

Transgression in Games and Play

Gaming the Iron Curtain

Gaming the Iron Curtain

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition

How Games Move Us

How Games Move Us

The Media Snatcher

The Media Snatcher

Handmade Pixels

Handmade Pixels

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The Media Snatcher

PC/CORE/TURBO/ENGINE/GRAFX/16/CDROM2/SUPER/DUO/ARCADE/RX
Carl Therrien 2019
- Hardcover $30.00 £22.50
Handmade Pixels

Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity
Jesper Juul 2019
- Hardcover $39.95 £30.00
Real Games

What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames
Mia Consalvo and Christopher A. Paul 2019
- Hardcover $30.00 £22.50
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition

Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp 2019
- Paperback $35.00 £28.00
Herewith the Clues
Boy Vereecken 2019
- Paperback $22.00
Iterate

Ten Lessons in Design and Failure
John Sharp and Colleen Macklin 2019
- Hardcover $29.95 £24.00
Fun, Taste, & Games

An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
John Sharp and David Thomas 2019
- Hardcover $27.95 £22.00
Transgression in Games and Play
Kristine Jørgensen and Faltin Karlsen 2019
- Hardcover $40.00 £30.00
Playing Smart

On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence
Julian Togelius 2019
- Hardcover $21.95 £16.99
Gaming the Iron Curtain

How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games
Jaroslav Švelch 2018
- Hardcover $45.00 £35.00
Many Splendored Things

Thinking Sex and Play
Susanna Paasonen 2018
- Hardcover $30.00 £20.00
Resonant Games

Design Principles for Learning Games that Connect Hearts, Minds, and the Everyday
Eric Klopfer, Jason Haas, Scot Osterweil, and Louisa Rosenheck 2018
- Hardcover $40.00 £30.00