Dario Compagno
Launched in 2002, the Ludologica Collection examines the most important video games of all time. Each volume is dedicated to a key theme or a seminal title. The discussed texts are placed within the production of the game designer and the genre of development and are analyzed in depth. From Will Wright to Shigeru Miyamoto, from Hideo Kojima to Richard Garriott, Ludologica thus creates an original mosaic of aesthetics, genres, and autonomous intentions with few comparisons in the current publishing landscape. The collection offers a new way to look at video games with an approach that is both accessible and stimulating. Among the authors are prominent figures from specialized criticism, university professors from prestigious institutions, and enthusiasts.
What does it mean to "read" a video game? In this engaging semiotic analysis, Dario Compagno engages in a hermeneutic challenge with Assassin's Creed 2 (Ubisoft, 2009). The author illustrates the mechanisms of electronic simulation by applying the interpretive filter of Roland Barthes, demonstrating that video games are a language, a systematic form of expression that interacts with other languages – those of painting, literature, cinema, comics, television. Video games, like the media that preceded them, contribute to making sense of the world around us. And Assassin's Creed, the captivating historical action game developed by a Franco-Canadian team, explains and simultaneously unfolds the meaning of the Renaissance period by simulating it. The eighteenth volume of the Ludologica editorial series reconciles semiotics and electronic entertainment.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
Italian | Paperback | | 9788840015750 | 2012 | 181 |
OTHER NAMES
Dezmond. Una lettura di Assassin's Creed 2
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