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Critical Hits
Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit

English · Paperback / Softback

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Whether you''re an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have been part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits is a celebration of play and playfulness, and the lasting impact of videogames. Composed of sharp, impassioned, and inquisitive essays, this collection begins with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado and presents video games through the eyes of eighteen writer-gamers as they straddle real and artificial worlds. In games, they find solace from illness and grief, test ideas about language, bodies, race, and technology, and see their experiences and identities reflected in-or complicated by-the interactive virtual realities they inhabit. From a deep dive into "portal fantasy" games by Charlie Jane Anders and a comic by MariNaomi about her time as a video game producer, to the overlaps in gaming and poetry by Stephen Sexton, Critical Hits illuminates fragments of an industry that is wildly popular, grossly misunderstood, and absolutely spellbinding.

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These fun, funny, occasionally cutting but often affirming essays celebrate the surprising potency of video games and virtual experiences. With any luck, this book will find a place of honour on every literary gamer's bookshelf Tom Bissell, author of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter

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Assisted by Carmen Maria Machado (Editor), J. Robert Lennon (Editor), J Robert Lennon (Editor)
Authors Various, Various Authors, J Robert Lennon, Carmen Maria Machado, EDITED BY CARMEN MAR
Publisher Serpent's Tail
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 01.11.2023
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
 
EAN 9781800814523
ISBN 978-1-80081-452-3
Pages 256
Dimensions (packing) 13.4 x 21.2 x 2.4 cm
 
Subjects Twitch, Video Games, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Play Station, Clash of Clans, Carmen Maria Machado, Computer and video game industry, Super Mario World, octavia bright, stephen sexton, video game industry, MariNaomi, writers on gaming, larissa pham, j robert lennon
 

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