Name: Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt - exhibition book
Brand: V&A Shop
SKU: 154922
Price: 25.00 GBP
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Videogames: Design / Play / Disrupt explores the design and culture of videogames since the mid-2000s, investigating ground-breaking contemporary design work, creative and rebellious player communities, and the political conversations that define this movement.

A star-studded cast of contributors consider a variety of games, from blockbusters like The Last of Us and Splatoon and cultural phenomena such as Minecraft to less-mainstream productions like Consume Me, which tackles the difficult issues of body image and extreme dieting. Canadian academic and minimalist games designer Pippin Barr addresses violence in videogames through his work on A Series of Gunshots; Kat Brewster discusses the creation of fan art and fan fiction in relation to the multiplayer first-person shooter Overwatch; and the phenomenon of community and cosplay is explored by Philippa Warr through League of Legends and the 2017 world finals in Beijing. It also features rarely seen material including designers’ notebooks, concept art, prototypes and the artistic inspirations behind games such as Journey, Kentucky Route Zero and No Man’s Sky.

This is truly a landmark publication, bringing videogames into the mainstream of cultural criticism and placing them alongside more conventional mediums of creative expression.

Author/Artist/Designer

Marie Foulston and Kristian Volsing

Pages

208

Dimensions

240mm x 190mm

ISBN

9781851779406

Colour

Product code

154922

Book Format

Softback

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