The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production Keogh Brendan
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production Keogh Brendan The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of…
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The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production Keogh Brendan
The precarious reality of videogame production beyond the corporate blockbuster studios of North America.The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American, European, and East Asian cities. Aiming squarely at this disconnect between perception and reality, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist presents a much more accurate and nuanced picture of how the vast majority of videogame-makers work--a picture that reveals the diverse and precarious communities, identities, and approaches that make videogame production a significant But most videogames today, in fact, are made by small clusters of people working on shoestring budgets, relying on existing, freely available software platforms, and hoping, often in vain, to rise to stardom--in short, people working like artists.