TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruggill,Judd Ethan
AU  - McAllister,Ken S.
TI  - Tempest: geometries of play 
T2  - Landmark video games
SN  - 9780472900107
AV  - GV1469.35.T46 R85 2015eb
U1  - 794.8 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Tempest (Video game)
KW  - Video games
KW  - Design
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Digital video: professional
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Information technology: general issues
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Videospiel
KW  - gnd
KW  - �Asthetik
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reading Tempest -- A genealogy of Tempest -- Contexts -- Life after Tempest; Open Access
N2  - "Atari's 1981 arcade hit Tempest was a "tube shooter" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, Tempest was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game's initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed "SkillStep"), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. Tempest was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games. In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze Tempest's landmark qualities, exploring the game's aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game's latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes."--Publisher's description
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