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Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds Copertina flessibile – 19 agosto 2011

Edizione Inglese di Jesper Juul (Autore)
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An in-depth analysis of game development and rules and fiction in video games—with concrete examples, including The Legend of Zelda, Grand Theft Auto, and more

A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul examines the constantly evolving tension between rules and fiction in video games. Discussing games from Pong to The Legend of Zelda, from chess to Grand Theft Auto, he shows how video games are both a departure from and a development of traditional non-electronic games. The book combines perspectives from such fields as literary and film theory, computer science, psychology, economic game theory, and game studies, to outline a theory of what video games are, how they work with the player, how they have developed historically, and why they are fun to play.

Locating video games in a history of games that goes back to Ancient Egypt, Juul argues that there is a basic affinity between games and computers. Just as the printing press and the cinema have promoted and enabled new kinds of storytelling, computers work as enablers of games, letting us play old games in new ways and allowing for new kinds of games that would not have been possible before computers. Juul presents a classic game model, which describes the traditional construction of games and points to possible future developments. He examines how rules provide challenges, learning, and enjoyment for players, and how a game cues the player into imagining its fictional world. Juul’s lively style and eclectic deployment of sources will make Half-Real of interest to media, literature, and game scholars as well as to game professionals and gamers.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0262516519
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0262516518
  3. Editore
    The MIT Press
  4. Data di pubblicazione
    19 agosto 2011
  5. Lingua
    Inglese
  6. Dimensioni
    17.78 x 1.52 x 22.86 cm
  7. Lunghezza stampa
    244 pagine
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Jesper Juul is Associate Professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He is the author of Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds; A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players; and The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games, all published by the MIT Press.

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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (19 agosto 2011)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 244 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262516519
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262516518
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 431 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 1.52 x 22.86 cm
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5,0 su 5 stelle Great read
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 9 giugno 2016
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Really interesting book. For someone who does living history and has written a dissertation on this topic, it was really useful for researching Blast Theory and other playful Arts-related immersive companies, games and theatre.
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5,0 su 5 stelle A Fresh Approach to Videogame Theory
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 4 ottobre 2007
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Very good book on the theory of videogames. Accessible, innovative, thoughtful, and centered on concrete (and popular) examples. He also includes lots of screenshots, which is good.

Juul takes what might be called a "grassroots" approach to game studies, not bringing heavy disciplinary baggage to colonize the area, but instead trying to build a formal theory of games from the ground up. He takes his lead primarily from game and culture theorists like Huizinga, Caillois, Crawford and Sutton-Smith rather than from literary theory or media studies. But he really charts his own course and stakes out his own ground in many ways.

He has a strong interest in game rules, which has led some to criticize him for being overly formalistic, but I find this a refreshing and interesting contrast to the more standard "new media" approach to video games.
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Jürgen Mayer
4,0 su 5 stelle Erstes Videospieltheorie-Standardwerk des neuen Millenniums
Recensito in Germania il 20 febbraio 2007
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Gleich vorweg was "Half-Real" nicht leistet: der Titel bietet keine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den eigentlichen Inhalten von Computer- und Videospielen. Dem dänischen Ludologen Jesper Juul, nicht zu verwechseln mit dem gleichnamigen, populären Erziehungswissenschafter, gelingt es vielmehr als Ersten überhaupt, strukturell zu erklären WAS Computerspiele eigentlich sind.

Der ursprüngliche Ausgangspunkt von LiteraturtheoretikerInnen wie Janet Murray (Hamlet on the Holodeck) wurde zu Beginn dieser Dekade von der Ludologie zum Teil scharf angegriffen: in "Half-Real" finden sich aber eigentlich sämtliche narratologischen Elemente bestens integriert wieder. Eine bemerkenswerte wissenschaftliche Leistung, noch dazu hervorragend geschrieben und mit persönlichen Anektoten versehen. Leider ist der Band nicht besonders umfangreich, und hat einen sehr stolzen Preis. Wer aber an Stelle eines Readers lieber eine Monographie zum Thema lesen möchte, wird derzeit NOCH um "Half-Real" absolut nicht herum kommen - auch wenn große wissenschaftliche Publikationen zum Thema zuletzt beinahe im Monatsrhytmus veröffentlicht wurden.
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Alessio Malizia
4,0 su 5 stelle Games, rules and realities: the classic model
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 24 gennaio 2019
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Nice book. Well written and full of examples. Sometime is a bit repetitive but definitely worth reading. Liked the diagrams about the classic model, real world and fictional world. The conclusion chapter resumes very well the essence of the book.
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4,0 su 5 stelle Good read about games
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 25 settembre 2011
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This is an interesting read for anyone who wants a perspective about games and gaming from someone who isn't a typical "fanboy" or "industry geek." Some of the insights were a bit typical for what you might expect, but there were a few nuggets that showed that Juul actually took some time to think about the genre and how rules both affect and are effected in games. I found it a bit light on scholarly sources, but since he is a professor, perhaps this book is more what he is teaching in his class than his own research. Not a bad read, if you can stomach some of prose.
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