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Paperback Game Art: The Graphic Art of Computer Games Book

ISBN: 0823020800

ISBN13: 9780823020805

Game Art: The Graphic Art of Computer Games

With an industry on the scale of Hollywood and an audience of millions, computer games are big news in the world of popular entertainment. They also provide the medium of choice for a new generation of creative talent, fusing incredible technical know-how with imaginative brilliance to create a thrilling new form of art. Game Art is a celebration of the best that games have to offer, with the emphasis on the brains behind tomorrow's blockbuster titles...

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Rated 4 stars
game art best book ever .....every

Game Art by Dave Morris and Leo Harris is one of the best ways I have found to learn about the history of video games. There are great drawings and pictures of many different games from Pong to Halo. This book has a lot of great information. There is a whole section about a game called Fable, which is the second most popular on X-Box. Fable allows the player to make choices and each choice leads to a different destiny. It's...

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Rated 5 stars
Misleading title for a intelligent mine of information

This is far more than a book of glossy game art pics, and certainly not a coffee table prop. Appropriately the book has a number of layers and themes which together provide an absorbing insight into the history of computer games. The text is free from the gushing sycophantic praise that blemishes many of the genre art books. Instead the authors produce a clear categorisation of games with illustrations in support. Comments...

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Rated 5 stars
A gorgeous book and a great time-sink . . .

I've never been an avid computer games player (wrong generation, mostly), but their progressive development, and especially the continuing quest for verisimilitude, fascinate me. I remember when Asteroids and Pac-Man and Space Invaders first appeared (in the lobbies of movie theaters, when "arcade" still meant pinball), and how addicted my adolescent kids quickly became. But that level of 2-D was nothing, of course, compared...

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