Difficult Questions About Video Games

by James Newman, Iain Simons

Originally published in 2004, Difficult Questions About Videogames is a unique collection of answers to a deceptively simplistic set of questions, beginning with, What is a videogame?ContributorsWarren Spector, Scott Adams, Jeff Minter, Eugene Jarvis, Dave Perry, Robin Hunicke, Ian Livingstone, Jez San, Aleks Krotowski, Jamie Fristrom, Scott Miller, Demis Hassabis, Noah Falstein, Gillian Cordall, Mia Consalvo, Kieron Gillen, Ian Bogost, Paul Carruthers, David Hayward, Helen Kennedy, Suzie Cardwell, Mark Griffiths and many more."Provides a continual stream of small nuggets..." - EDGE magazine"A fantastic effort that is worthy of any gamers bookshelf be she / he academically driven or purely gaming mad. The insight you’ll gain from the differing views and perspectives is something few (if any) other gaming books will give you because it is the structure and diverse responses that will have you thinking and wondering why other books haven’t taken a similar tack as this." - Thumb Bandits

Genres: Game Design, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published June 7, 2012

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[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thought-provoking mix of deceptively simple questions with radical, loving, conservative, funny, mundane, controversial, and emotional answers. A pervasive, essential addition to an often misunderstood cultural form.