Umfang:
xv, 235 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780262044776
Serie:
Game histories
Inhalt:
"A history of "homebrew" gaming, focusing explicitly on the Australian and New Zealand contexts"--
Inhalt:
From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of computing. A major use of these inexpensive 8-bit machines – including the TRS System 80s and the Sinclair, Atari, Microbee, and Commodore ranges – was the development of homebrew games. Users with often self-taught programming skills devised the graphics, sound, and coding for their self-created games. In this book, Melanie Swalwell offers a history of this era of homebrew game development, arguing that it constitutes a significant instance of the early appropriation of digital computing technology. Drawing on interviews and extensive archival research on homebrew creators in 1980s Australia and New Zealand, Swalwell explores the creation of games on microcomputers as a particular mode of everyday engagement with new technology. She discusses the public discourses surrounding microcomputers and programming by home coders; user practices; the development of game creators' ideas, with the game Donut Dilemma as a case study; the widely practiced art of hardware hacking; and the influence of 8-bit aesthetics and gameplay on the contemporary game industry. With Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality, Swalwell reclaims a lost chapter in video game history, connecting it to the rich cultural and media theory around everyday life and to critical perspectives on user-generated content.
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 199-218
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Enthält ein Register
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Introduction -- Discourses about micro-computers -- Micro users as makers -- The games -- Hardware hacking and electronics -- The legacy of 1980s homebrew -- New directions.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Swalwell, Melanie, 1972 - Homebrew gaming and the beginnings of vernacular digitality Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2021 ISBN 9780262365611
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0262365618
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Australien
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Neuseeland
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Computerspiel
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Videospiel
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Programmierung
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Amateur
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Geschichte 1970-1985
