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First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 297 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Summary |
"The inside story of the booming video game industry from the late 1990s to the present, as told by the Managing Director of Ubisoft Massive (The Division, Far Cry 3, Assassin's Creed: Revelations)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Watcher of the skies -- 1998-2008. A painter dies ; The magic door ; A fat bear changed my life ; From inside a bubble ; The cult of the cheap ; Sputniks in the ballroom ; The third wave ; A man dies, and all I feel is self-pity ; Original sins ; Discarded paper cups ; In the shadow of the Colossi ; Massive entertainment ; A plot ; Green lights ; Making things up ; World in conflict ; The great tragedy -- 2008-2016. Ubisoft ; Michael Collins ; Paris ; The sage ; Montreal ; His Majesty wants to play ; Penrose ; Assassin's creed: Revelations ; Suddenly, among titans ; Far cry 3 ; Snowdrop ; The paratrooper ; E3 ; Oregon ; Like drowning in Corsica ; From a moss-covered stone ; Everything is made of stardust ; Giant flies ; Tom Clancy's The Division ; Malibu ; Solar panels ; In the glade -- Appendix: Rules of an (allegedly) classic Italian pool game. |
| Summary |
At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director Polfeldt has had a hand in some of the biggest video game franchises of today. Here he charts his course through a charmed, idiosyncratic career that began at the dawn of the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox era. Along the way, Polfeldt ruminates on how the video-game industry has grown and changed, how and when games became art, and the medium's expanding artistic and storytelling potential. -- adapted from jacket. |
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Polfeldt, David.
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Video games industry -- Sweden -- History.
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Video game designers -- Sweden.
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| ISBN |
9781538702611 hardcover : $27.00 |
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1538702614 hardcover |
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9781538754184 paperback |
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1538754185 paperback |
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