Nick Montfort
Autore di The New Media Reader
Sull'Autore
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at MIT. He is the author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and The Future and the coauthor of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and 10 PRINT CHRS(205.5+RND(1)); GOTO 10 (all published by the MIT Press).
Fonte dell'immagine: Scott Rettberg , November 12, 2000
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Opere di Nick Montfort
The trivial program "yes" 1 copia
No code : null programs 1 copia
The First Numbers 1 copia
Troper/Schematorium 1 copia
Book and Volume 1 copia
Opere correlate
Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (2007) — Collaboratore — 107 copie
The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (Routledge Literature Companions) (2012) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (Frontiers of Narrative) (2011) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice (Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and… (2015) — Prefazione — 4 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1972
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Texas, Austin ( [1995])
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( [1998])
Boston University ( [2001])
University of Pennsylvania - Attività lavorative
- Associate professor of digital media
computer scientist
author
poet - Organizzazioni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Recensioni
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/racing-the-beam-the-atari-video-computer-system-...
I know very little about computer games, and still less about the early history of the Atari system; but sometimes it does you good to read about a field of human endeavour with which you are completely unfamiliar. This is a tremendous analysis of how coding is affected by external factors, especially the way in which the business of game development is financed and structured, but also from learning about player preferences and making crazy bets about game features which turn out to pay off (or not).
This slim volume looks in depth at six games, only one of which I had heard of – Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars’ Revenge, Pitfall and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, but also in passing at the other games developed before or at the same time in each case, to paint a picture of the intellectual moment in which the writing of the game took place. There is a modest amount of machine code, but a lot of analysis of how ideas get turned into player experience. I don’t think I have retained very much of the information, but I come away struck by the cultural profundity of the whole enterprise. Recommended even for those like me who are not immersed in the subject.… (altro)
I know very little about computer games, and still less about the early history of the Atari system; but sometimes it does you good to read about a field of human endeavour with which you are completely unfamiliar. This is a tremendous analysis of how coding is affected by external factors, especially the way in which the business of game development is financed and structured, but also from learning about player preferences and making crazy bets about game features which turn out to pay off (or not).
This slim volume looks in depth at six games, only one of which I had heard of – Combat, Adventure, Pac-Man, Yars’ Revenge, Pitfall and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, but also in passing at the other games developed before or at the same time in each case, to paint a picture of the intellectual moment in which the writing of the game took place. There is a modest amount of machine code, but a lot of analysis of how ideas get turned into player experience. I don’t think I have retained very much of the information, but I come away struck by the cultural profundity of the whole enterprise. Recommended even for those like me who are not immersed in the subject.… (altro)
Super interesting in a nostalgic way, but stretching the analysis of one piece of code a little bit too much (or too academically).
Dry at times, but nonetheless a great, inspiring reading. Made me want to develop an Atari game just for fun.
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- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 23
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 2
Overall I think the problem is the format, its impossible to address a subject as vast in a small booklet.