LEXICON OF COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAME CREATORS
Winnie Forster
The encyclopedia of game designers and programmers, international teams, and publishers: over 1,850 people, 4,500 games, and 1,300 company profiles covering the industry through the end of 2008. By Retro Gamer author Winnie Forster.
It took just three decades for “Pong” and its contemporaries to establish themselves alongside literature, film, and music as a mass medium and art form. Behind the triumph of interactive pixels stand talented technicians and creative minds, innovative studios, and visionary companies. Spielmacher presents the people, teams, and companies behind 30 years of computer and video games in an organized and detailed reference work.
This encyclopedia profiles the technicians, designers, and producers – the geniuses and mavericks behind the most progressive entertainment medium. Spielmacher chronicles the successes and failures, the rise and fall of both contemporary and legendary software companies such as Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Activision, MicroProse, and Sierra. It explores the innovations of small development teams, as well as the strategies employed by electronics and IT corporations when entering the industry.
This worldwide guide to video game history and the industry includes:
1,500 encyclopedia entries
220 biographies of classic and modern game creators
1,300 profiles of international companies
4,500 computer, video, and arcade games, with their creators identified
650 up-to-date links to help readers navigate the jungle of active developers
It also answers questions such as:
Who acquired whom, and what happened to the development studios and companies that were taken over?
Which game companies entered the film industry, and with what results?
Who sued whom, and when, over the course of 35 years of video game history?
Which companies were brought down by copyright law and related legal issues?
Who were the first 3D programmers, CD-ROM developers, and online architects – and what became of them?
Which game designers traveled to the South Pole?
Who gave up their company to sail around the world?
And who ventured into space?
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
German | Paperback | 9783000215841 | 2008 | 400 |
OTHER NAMES
Lexicon of Computer and Video Game Creators
Lexikon der Computer- und Video-Spielmacher
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