Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda - Couverture souple

DeWinter, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628924683 ISBN 13 : 9781628924688

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The Influential Video Game Designers series aims at a gap in interdisciplinary games studies: the game-'auteur. To date, video games are considered goods produced in economics without authorship. However, a close look shows that the "object" of the video game comprises not only modes of production or economics, but also the perspective of a maker. In this sense, the first volume of the series, about the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, is conceptually and theoretically the right decision: Miyamoto is a game designer who is rather unknown to public, but certainly popular and ever-present (at least to a general audience) with his games. To discuss the work, aesthetic preferences, and strategies of production of a man who could be addressed as one of the 'father figures of game design is the right decision. The book itself is not only a must-have for everybody interested in gaming culture, game design or the Japanese gaming industry, but also a great way to remember when you wasted your free time (and your coins) by playing Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong.
- Rolf Nohr, Professor of Media Aesthetics / Media Culture, The Braunschweig University of Art, Germany

Historians of digital games have until now lacked a critical assessment of the game industry's most famous and influential designer, Shigeru Miyamoto. This certainly held us back, but Jennifer deWinter has at last removed the problem with this balanced account of his achievements. The rest of us will have to get busy and build on her outstanding work.
- Henry Lowood, History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections, Stanford University Libraries, USA

With this book Jennifer deWinter and Carly Kocurek have made an enormous contribution to the study of videogame history, design and aesthetics. This is not only due to the work's novel focus upon a single designer, but also due to the forensic manner in which they unpack the complex relationship between Miyamoto s oeuvre and the material conditions which influenced every design decision. Written in an engaging, concise style, this is more than just a book for academics: it is essential reading for any designer or fan of the medium. --- Steven Conway, Lecturer in Games & Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

I came to this book knowing very little about Miyamoto, but, like anyone else who s been playing video games since he was a kid, and having played at least a dozen of his titles, several are permanently burned into my brain. DeWinter lays out his many influences, from his time exploring caves in the rural region where he grew up to his time as a teenage banjo player. There were multiple moments when I came across some new (to me) piece of information about Miyamoto, thought back to a game of his in some cases, one I haven t played in years and felt the cognitive click of recognition.
- The Boston Globe
Shigeru Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda really gets at the heart of Miyamoto s influence on the gaming industry ... Providing a great understanding of Shigeru Miyamoto s role in the gaming industry, it s a book that also gives readers an understanding of the history of gaming as a whole, as well as the many influences one influential designer can have ... it provides a fascinating look at how the gaming industry has evolved through the years.
- Games Fiends

Summing up such a massive career is an unbelievable act of compression, and what is there is incredibly well-researched and well-synthesized to the point that it feels like its own tidy Miyamoto-like object... An incredibly well-rounded resource, brimming with anecdotes, interviews, and any document on-hand to provide a clearer understanding of a public-yet-enigmatic figure. --- Paste Magazine

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1628924683
• ISBN 13: 9781628924688
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200