Descripción
Featuring interviews with the creators of 31 popular video games--including Grand Theft Auto, Strider, Maximum Carnage and Pitfall--this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of some of the most enjoyable and iconic adventure games of all time. Interviewees recount the endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega-publishers, the growth of the adventure genre, and reveal the creative processes that produced some of the industry's biggest hits, cult classics and indie successes.
Author: Patrick Hickey
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 01/12/2020
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781476679662
ISBN10: 1476679665
BISAC Categories:
- Games & Activities | Video & Mobile
Author: Patrick Hickey
Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
Published: 01/12/2020
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781476679662
ISBN10: 1476679665
BISAC Categories:
- Games & Activities | Video & Mobile
About the Author
Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by Nintendo, Disney and EA Sports. Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies and humanities at Pace University and lives in Brooklyn.