Description
A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.
Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major scholar in the field of game studies. His voluminous writings have tackled subject matter spanning the history of game design and development, military simulation, table-top games, machinima, e-sports, wargaming, and historical software archives and collection development. Replayed consolidates Lowood's far-flung and significant publications on these subjects into a single volume.
A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.
About the Author
Henry E. Lowood is the Harold C. Hohbach Curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections and the Curator of the Film and Media Collections at Stanford University Libraries. Raiford Guins is a professor and the director of cinema and media studies in the Media School at Indiana University Bloomington.
Reviews
Replayed is a valuable resource... I read the book and wished such a resource had been available when I first dipped my toes into game preservation and game history.
-American Journal of Play
Book Information
ISBN 9781421445946
Author Henry Lowood
Format Hardback
Page Count 376
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 635g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm
