Shigeru miyamoto biography book
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The Influential Video Game Designers series aims at a gap in interdisciplinary games studies: the game-'auteur.
Shigeru miyamoto biography book
To date, video games are considered goods produced in economics without authorship. However, a close look shows that the "object" of the video game comprises not only modes of production or economics, but also the perspective of a maker.
In this sense, the first volume of the series, about the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, is conceptually and theoretically the right decision: Miyamoto is a game designer who is rather unknown to public, but certainly popular and ever-present (at least to a general audience) with his games.
To discuss the work, aesthetic preferences, and strategies of production of a man who could be addressed as one of the 'father figures of game design is the right decision. The book itself is not only a must-have for everybody interested in gaming culture, game design or the Japanese gaming industry, but also a great way to remember whe