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Minds Behind Adventure Games

Patrick Hickey, Jr.
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      Featuring interviews with the creators of 31 popular video games—including Grand Theft Auto, Strider, Maximum Carnage and Pitfall—this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of some of the most enjoyable and iconic adventure games of all time. Interviewees recount the endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega-publishers, the growth of the adventure genre, and reveal the creative processes that produced some of the industry's biggest hits, cult classics and indie successes.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Patrick Hickey, Jr. EAN: 9781476679662 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 433 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-01-12 CITY: GENRE: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Computer games / online games: strategy guides, Games development and programming, Indoor games

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      Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by Nintendo, Disney and EA Sports.
      Featuring interviews with the creators of 31 popular video games—including Grand Theft Auto, Strider, Maximum Carnage and Pitfall—this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the origins of some of the most enjoyable and iconic adventure games of all time. Interviewees recount the endless hours of painstaking development, the challenges of working with mega-publishers, the growth of the adventure genre, and reveal the creative processes that produced some of the industry's biggest hits, cult classics and indie successes.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Patrick Hickey, Jr. EAN: 9781476679662 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 433 g HEIGHT: 254 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: McFarland & Co Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-01-12 CITY: GENRE: GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile WIDTH: 178 cm SPINE:

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      Computer games / online games: strategy guides, Games development and programming, Indoor games

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      Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by Nintendo, Disney and EA Sports.

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