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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 North America, Europe,
and East Asia. But, in reality, most videogames today 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. Aiming squarely at this disconnect between
perception and reality,
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist presents a more
accurate and nuanced picture of how the vast majority of videogame-makers work.
Drawing on insights from over 400 game developers, Brendan Keogh develops a new
framework for understanding videogame production as a cultural field in all its
complexity. Part-time hobbyists, aspirational students, client-facing
contractors, struggling independents, artist collectives, and tightly knit
local scenes—all have a place within this model. But proponents of
non-commercial game-making don't exist in isolation; Keogh shows how they and
their commercial counterparts are deeply interconnected and codependent in the
field of videogame production.
A cultural intervention,
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist challenges
core assumptions about videogame production and reveals the diverse and
precarious communities, identities, and approaches that make it a significant
cultural practice."
Via Josh ‘Cheeseness’ Bush:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-game-does-82216479
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
