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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Games are not films! but
• Push start button: the rise of video games
• Insert quarter to continue: 16-bit and the death of the arcade
• Press reset: video game music comes of age
• Game audio today: technology, process and aesthetic
• Synergy in game audio: film, popular music and intellectual property
• Gameplay, genre, and the functions of game audio
• Compositional approaches to dynamic game music.

Author/Creator:

Collins, Karen, 1973-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Game sound: an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of video game music and sound design [by Collins, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Game sound [by Collins, K.] (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 — ISBN 9780262033787; ISBN 026203378X; LCCN 2008008742)

Subjects:

Video game music — History and criticism

Video game music

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

ML3540.7 .C65 2008eb

ISBNs:

9781435677272 (electronic bk.)
1435677277 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

273057677

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3338949 (source: MiAaPQ)