Ste Curran
Auteur van Game On!: From Pong to GTA - The Greatest Games of All Time
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It is a common problem among gamers that they think because they play Pro Evo and Quake 8 hours a day they are therefore an expert on video games. WRONG! Game On shows the diversity of the medium and has insightful and easy to understand analysis of why the game in question is good, where it's weak, what it's done for video gaming as a whole, legacy, influences, all the relevant information if you want to know what titles are truly significant.
In short, this book is a perfect "Bluffer's guide to video games".
Whether you just want to get up to speed on gaming (perhaps you're doing a media course and are not a gamer, or maybe a parent of a video game developer) or whether you are already an avid gamer but are aware that you're missing out on the bigger gaming picture then a read of this book will clue you right up. Game On is complemented well by the authors' other, slightly more technical, book The Complete Guide to Game Development, Art & Design. If you read Game On and want to know more about gaming, particularly the production side, then that book is a good place to start.
I'm quite tempted to buy a copy of Game On specially for the bathroom so that the gaming-ignorant who go in there at least come out a little less so.… (meer)