Players Unleashed! : Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming PDF
by Sihvonen Tanja Sihvonen
Part of the MediaMatters series
Description
It has been ten years since video game giant Electronic Arts first released The Sims, the best-selling game that allows its players to create a household and then manage every aspect of daily life within it. And since its debut, gamers young and old have found ways to “mod” The Sims, a practice in which gamers manipulate the computer code of a game, and thereby alter it to add new content and scenarios.
In Players Unleashed!—the first study of its kind—Tanja Sihvonen provides a fascinating examination of modding, tracing its evolution and detailing its impact on The Sims and the game industry as a whole. Along the way, Sihvonen shares insights into specific modifications and the cultural contexts from which they emerge.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:221 pages
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:15/07/2012
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- ISBN:9789048511983
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:221 pages
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:15/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9789048511983
