Marco Trabattoni
Launched in 2002, the Ludologica Collection examines the most important video games of all time. Each volume is dedicated to a key theme or a seminal title. The discussed texts are placed within the production of the game designer and the genre of development and are analyzed in depth. From Will Wright to Shigeru Miyamoto, from Hideo Kojima to Richard Garriott, Ludologica thus creates an original mosaic of aesthetics, genres, and autonomous intentions with few comparisons in the current publishing landscape. The collection offers a new way to look at video games with an approach that is both accessible and stimulating. Among the authors are prominent figures from specialized criticism, university professors from prestigious institutions, and enthusiasts.
Shenmue: A Semiotic Challenge" offers an analysis of one of the milestones in video game history. The book provides a set of tools, concepts, and categories to understand the ludonarrative functioning of video games while also offering a terminological framework for the analysis of specific texts. After an introduction to the state of the art in video game semiotics, the author presents a possible analytical model that involves breaking down the text according to a triple textual regime. In the third chapter, the identified tools are applied to the analysis of Shenmue (Sega, 1999), one of the most significant and misunderstood titles in recent video game history. A decade after the publication of Massimo Maietti's "Semiotics of Video Games," this monograph reaffirms the effectiveness of academic approaches to the study of the video game medium.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
Italian | Paperback | | 9788840017242 | 2014 | 128 |
OTHER NAMES
Shenmue. Una sfida semiotica
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Authors: #MarcoTrabattoni
Publishers: #EdizioniUnicopli (Edizioni Unicopli)
Languages: #Italian
Format: #Paperback
Accessibility: N/A
Year: #Year2014
Genres: #GameDesign
Companies:
#Sega (Sega, Sega AM2)
Public Figures:
#YuSuzuki (Yu Suzuki)
Games:
#Shenmue (Shenmue)
Misc:
#Ludologica (Ludologica #22)
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