Shigeru Miyamoto : Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda Paperback / softback
by Jennifer (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) deWinter
Part of the Influential Video Game Designers series
Paperback / softback
Description
Video games are considered by many to be just entertainment—essentially void of skillful, artistic intervention.
But as any gamer knows, there’s incredible technical and graphic talent behind even a flickering Gameboy screen. You may have never heard Shigeru Miyamoto’s name, but you’ve probably spent many a lazy afternoon absorbed in his work.
Joining Nintendo as a video game designer in the late 1970s, Miyamoto created the powerhouse franchises Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong—games so ubiquitous that Miyamoto was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in 2007.
Combining critical essays with interviews, bibliographies, and striking visuals, Shigeru Miyamoto unveils the artist behind thousands of glowing gaming screens, tracing out his design decisions, aesthetic preferences, and the material conditions that shaped his work.
With this incredible (and incredibly unknown) figure, series editors Jennifer DeWinter and Carly Kocurek launch the Influential Video Game Designers series, at last giving these artists the recognition they deserve.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages, 25 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:16/07/2015
- ISBN:9781628923889
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:200 pages, 25 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:16/07/2015
- ISBN:9781628923889
