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Gamishcredits Nintendo with the birth of the idea that a game should have some kind of story and characterisation, rather than merely a blob representing the player. This is a significant evolution for one of Ross’s central ideas, the way games allow us to experience being another person. T...
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In media cultures of late, the synergy between two global dominant industries - mobile communication and gaming - has attracted much attention and stargazing. As part of burgeoning global media cultures, gaming and mobile media are divergent in their adaptation at the level of the local. In some...
history influence them during production, which makes them seismographs oftheir time. (3) They depict histories of the game industry, of the evolution of gamedesign principles or game forms as techno-cultural histories. (4) The structural el-ements of systematic approaches above and the mentioned...
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