{"product_id":"demystifying-game-studies-paperback","title":"Demystifying Game Studies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Heron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an introduction to game studies, written in an approachable way that outlines useful perspectives that readers can use to interrogate games as a primary text. It provides the reader with a toolset that can \"level up\" their own critical perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is organized around several evaluative lenses, each supported with case studies. These lenses approach the analysis of games from different perspectives, outlining some of the important foundational work from game studies and other relevant disciplines, and then relating it widely across a corpus of modern titles. This book covers video games, role-playing games, and board games, along with digressions into other more obscure areas such as LARPs, Mega-Games, and Non-Games. Each of the main areas calls back to how each of the evaluative lenses of this book could be used to illuminate intersections of medium and theoretical perspectives. The provided case studies then offer deeper dives into titles of particular significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be suitable for students in games-related courses at multiple levels of the curriculum, game critics, and those who simply want to develop more interesting and nuanced opinions on games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr Michael Heron \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor in Games at the School of Computer Science and Engineering in Gothenburg, Sweden, and programme administrator for the Game Design and Technology programme. Michael is also the author of \u003cem\u003eTabletop Game Accessibility: Meeple Centred Design\u003c\/em\u003e (CRC Press, 2024)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Case Study in Computer Ethics in Context: The Scandal in Academia\u003c\/i\u003e (CRC Press, 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 26, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48757399650553,"sku":"9781032868578","price":108.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/emCCpNwwE29781032868578.webp?v=1785946462","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/demystifying-game-studies-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}