ISBN: 9783030250119 - the unity game engine and the circuits of cultural software (14 risultati)

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Videogames were once made with a vast range of tools and technologies, but in recent years a smallnumber of commercially available 'game engines' have reached an unprecedented level ofdominance in the global videogame industry. In particular, the Unity game engine haspenetrated all scales of videogame development, from the large studio to the hobbyistbedroom, such that over half of all new videogames are reportedly being made with Unity. Thisbook provides an urgently needed critical analysis of Unity as 'cultural software' that facilitatesparticular production workflows, design methodologies, and software literacies. Building onlong-standing methods in media and cultural studies, and drawing on interviews with a rangeof videogame developers, Benjamin Nicoll and Brendan Keogh argue that Unity deploys adiscourse of democratization to draw users into its 'circuits of cultural software'. For scholars ofmedia production, software culture, and platform studies, this book provides a framework andlanguage to better articulate the increasingly dominant role of software tools in culturalproduction. For videogame developers, educators, and students, it provides critical andhistorical grounding for a tool that is widely used yet rarely analysed from a cultural angle.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Videogames were once made with a vast range of tools and technologies, but in recent years a smallnumber of commercially available 'game engines' have reached an unprecedented level ofdominance in the global videogame industry. In particular, the Unity game engine haspenetrated all scales of videogame development, from the large studio to the hobbyistbedroom, such that over half of all new videogames are reportedly being made with Unity. Thisbook provides an urgently needed critical analysis of Unity as 'cultural software' that facilitatesparticular production workflows, design methodologies, and software literacies. Building onlong-standing methods in media and cultural studies, and drawing on interviews with a rangeof videogame developers, Benjamin Nicoll and Brendan Keogh argue that Unity deploys adiscourse of democratization to draw users into its 'circuits of cultural software'. For scholars ofmedia production, software culture, and platform studies, this book provides a framework andlanguage to better articulate the increasingly dominant role of software tools in culturalproduction. For videogame developers, educators, and students, it provides critical andhistorical grounding for a tool that is widely used yet rarely analysed from a cultural angle. 136 pp. Englisch.…

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Gebunden. Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Benjamin Nicoll is Lecturer in Digital Media and Communication and a member of the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research focuses on the history and critical theory of videogames and vi.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Videogames were once made with a vast range of tools and technologies, but in recent years a small number of commercially available 'game engines' have reached an unprecedented level of dominance in the global videogame industry. In particular, the Unity game engine has penetrated all scales of videogame development, from the large studio to the hobbyist bedroom, such that over half of all new videogames are reportedly being made with Unity. This book provides an urgently needed critical analysis of Unity as 'cultural software' that facilitates particular production workflows, design methodologies, and software literacies. Building on long-standing methods in media and cultural studies, and drawing on interviews with a range of videogame developers, Benjamin Nicoll and Brendan Keogh argue that Unity deploys a discourse of democratization to draw users into its 'circuits of cultural software'. For scholars of media production, software culture, and platform studies, this book provides a framework and language to better articulate the increasingly dominant role of software tools in cultural production. For videogame developers, educators, and students, it provides critical and historical grounding for a tool that is widely used yet rarely analysed from a cultural angle.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 136 pp. Englisch.…