TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruggill,Judd Ethan
AU  - McAllister,Ken S.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Tempest : : Geometries of Play / 
T2  - Landmark video games
SN  - 9780472900107
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Design
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ästhetik
KW  - Videospiel
KW  - Video games
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Tempest (Video game)
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Information technology: general issues
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Digital video: professional
KW  - Jeux video
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Conception
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Tempest (Jeu)
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42622/
ER  -