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Anastasia Salter - Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects - 9781501327452 - V9781501327452
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Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects

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Description for Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects Hardback. Series: Influential Video Game Designers. Num Pages: 200 pages, 25 bw illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFD; UGG; UMK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play. Yet most of the games in these new genres featured fantasylands or humorous science fiction landscapes with low stakes and little to suggest the potential of the PC as a serious space for art and play. Jane Jensen's work and landmark Gabriel Knight series brought a new darkness and personality to PC gaming, offering a first powerful glimpse of what games could be as they came of age. As an author and designer, Jensen brought her approach as ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Influential Video Game Designers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501327452
SKU
V9781501327452
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Anastasia Salter
Anastasia Salter is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Central Florida, USA. She is the author of What is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Book (2014) and co-author of Flash: Building the Interactive Web (2014). She is an editor of the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 3.

Reviews for Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects
The first decades of digital history went by too fast, leaving many of us with false impressions, like the canard that computer games arose in an all-male engineering culture, a blithe assertion that overlooks the genius of people like Judy Malloy, Brenda Laurel, and Jane Jensen. Happily, genius has reach: transformative work leaves lasting marks on the girls and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects


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