Board Games as Media

2021-01-14 Games & Activities

Author : Paul Booth
Release : 2021-01-14
Genre : Games & Activities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Board Games as Media by : Paul Booth

Download or read book Board Games as Media written by Paul Booth. This book was released on 2021-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game. What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard? With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, Board Games as Media underscores the importance of board games in the ever-evolving world of media.

Avidly Reads Board Games

2019-10-08 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Eric Thurm
Release : 2019-10-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 829/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Avidly Reads Board Games by : Eric Thurm

Download or read book Avidly Reads Board Games written by Eric Thurm. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly—an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships—from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia.

The Everything Tabletop Games Book

2019-07-16 Games & Activities

Author : Bebo
Release : 2019-07-16
Genre : Games & Activities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 620/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Everything Tabletop Games Book by : Bebo

Download or read book The Everything Tabletop Games Book written by Bebo. This book was released on 2019-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabletop and board games aren’t just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are jumping to play “the original social network.” In our ever-increasing technological world, playing old-school games is a welcome retreat from the overexposure to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of social media. Over the past few years, board games have become the hot new hobby. Instead of friends sitting around the same table and staring at their phones, they are now either working with or against each other. Millions upon millions of new fans have begun to join their friends in real life for a fun game of Pandemic, 7 Wonders, or Ticket to Ride. The Everything Tabletop Games Book shows how to play some of the best tabletop games in the world, from classic strategy games like Settlers of Catan to great new games like Gloomhaven. Throughout the book, you’ll learn the different genres of tabletop and board games; how to play each game; rules and strategies to help you win; and even where to play online—including new expansions to keep your favorite games fresh and exciting. So gather up some friends, pick a game from this book, and start playing! You’ll be having a blast in no time.

Game Play

2015-04-23 Games & Activities

Author : Paul Booth
Release : 2015-04-23
Genre : Games & Activities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Game Play written by Paul Booth. This book was released on 2015-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century has seen a board game renaissance. At a time when streaming television finds millions of viewers, video games garner billions of dollars, and social media grows ever more intense, little has been written about the rising popularity of board games. And yet board games are one of our fastest growing hobbies, with sales increasing every year. Today's board games are more than just your average rainy-day mainstay. Once associated solely with geek subcultures, complex and strategic board games are increasingly dominating the playful media environment. The popularity of these complex board games mirrors the rise of more complex cult media products. In Game Play: Paratextuality in Contemporary Board Games, Paul Booth examines complex board games based on book, TV, and film franchises, including Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, The Hunger Games and the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. How does a game represent a cult world? How can narratives cross media platforms? By investigating the relationship between these media products and their board game versions, Booth illustrates the connections between cult media, gameplay, and narrative in a digital media environment.

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