[game_edu] etc press releases dungeons & dreamers (updated 2nd edition)
drew davidson
drew at waxebb.com
Sat Mar 15 05:34:16 EDT 2014
ETC Press is excited to announce the release of “Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (2nd Edition)” by Brad King & John Borland
In 1974, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson published the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing game. Through the next 40 years, computer game developers used these fantasy worlds as archetypes for the budding virtual game worlds These games would become as varied as books in a library, but the essence of each was built upon community. People gathered and played...together. Dungeons & Dreamers: A story of how computer games created a global community follows the designers, developers, and players who built the virtual games and communities that define today's digital entertainment landscape and explores the nature of what it means to live and thrive in virtual communities.
For more information, and to purchase a copy, visit:
http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/dungeons-dreamers
http://press.etc.cmu.edu/
http://www.dungeonsanddreamers.com
The ETC Press is an academic and open-source publishing imprint that distributes its work in print, electronic and digital form. Inviting readers to contribute to and create versions of each publication, ETC Press fosters a community of collaborative authorship and dialogue across media. ETC Press represents an experiment and an evolution in publishing, bridging virtual and physical media to redefine the future of publication.
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