Making Games: The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools

by Stefan Werning

An argument that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive medium.

In Making Games, Stefan Werning considers the role of tools (primarily but not exclusively software), their design affordances, and the role they play as sociotechnical actors. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies, Werning argues that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262044838
• ISBN13: 9780262044837
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.1"