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SHENMUE: A SEMIOTIC CHALLENGE

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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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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