Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds

Making Videogames is an extraordinary snapshot of modern interactive entertainment, with insight from pioneers about the most...
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Author: Duncan Harris
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Language: English
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Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds by Harris, Duncan

Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds

¥9,339

Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds

¥9,339
Author: Duncan Harris
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Making Videogames is an extraordinary snapshot of modern interactive entertainment, with insight from pioneers about the most important games in the industry. Illustrated with some of the most arresting in-game images ever seen in print, this book explores the unique alchemy of a technical and artistic endeavor striking a captivating balance between insider insight and accessibility.

Across twelve chapters, each focusing on a specific game from AAA blockbusters such as Control and Half-Life: Alyx to cult breakthrough games including No Man's Sky and Return of the Obra Dinn, this volume documents the incredible craft of videogame worldbuilding. These chapters present masterful visual storytelling via the world's most popular, but seldom fully understood, entertainment medium.

Demonstrating the magic and method behind each studio's work, the book includes enlightening text by Alex Wiltshire complementing specially created imagery "photographed" in-engine by screen capture artist Duncan Harris. A book for die-hard videogame fanatics, aspiring designer-creatives, video game developers, and the visually curious alike, Making Videogames will showcase the boundless creativity of this thrilling industry.



Author: Duncan Harris, Alex Wiltshire
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.34lbs
Size: 11.19h x 8.67w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780500023143

About the Author
Wiltshire, Alex: - Alex Wiltshire is a writer and consultant for videogames, design, and technology. He is the author of the bestselling book Minecraft Blockopedia (2014), and the editor of Britsoft: An Oral History (2016). Previously editor of Edge, he has also written for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, PC Gamer, and Eurogamer.

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