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001			on1017738122
003			OCoLC
005			20240726104756.0
008			180103s2017 sz ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dYDX _dEBLCP _dNT
020			_a9783035800128 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a303580012X _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
041	1		_aeng _hger
050	0	4	_aGV1469 _b.C667 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aPias, Claus, _e1
245	1	0	_aComputer game worlds /Claus Pias ; translated from the German by Valentine A. Pakis.
250			_afirst edition.
260			_aZurich ; _aBerlin : _bDiaphanes, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
520	0		_aComputer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the creation of this entirely new type of game? What sorts of knowledge facilitated the requisite technological and institutional transformations? With Computer Game Worlds, Claus Pias sets out to answer these questions. Tracing computer games from their earliest forms to the unstoppable commercial and cultural phenomena they have become today, Pias then provides a careful epistemological reconstruction of the process of playing games, both at computers and by computers themselves. The book makes a valuable theoretical contribution to the ongoing discussion about computer games.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aComputer games.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aPakis, Valentine A., _etrl
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942			_cOB _D _eEB _hGV. _m2017 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c77856 _d77856
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell