The Minds Behind Adventure Games

Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7966-2
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Studies in Gaming

Featuring interviews with the creators of 31 popular video games—including Grand Theft Auto, Strider, Maximum Carnage and Pitfall—this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of some of the most enjoyable and iconic adventure games of all time. Interviewees recount the endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega-publishers, the growth of the adventure genre, and reveal the creative processes that produced some of the industry's biggest hits, cult classics and indie successes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hickey, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by Nintendo, Disney and EA Sports.