Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity

by Jesper Juul

An investigation of independent video games--creative, personal, strange, and experimental--and their claims to handcrafted authenticity in a purely digital medium.

Video games are often dismissed as mere entertainment products created by faceless corporations. The last twenty years, however, have seen the rise of independent, or "indie," video games: a wave of small, cheaply developed, experimental, and personal video games that react against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262042797
• ISBN13: 9780262042796
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.1"