{"product_id":"tempest-judd-ethan-ruggill-9780472052691","title":"Tempest: Geometries of Play","description":"Atari's 1981 arcade hit \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e was a \"tube shooter\" built around glowing, vector-based geometric shapes. Among its many important contributions to both game and cultural history, \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e was one of the first commercial titles to allow players to choose the game's initial play difficulty (a system Atari dubbed \"SkillStep\"), a feature that has since became standard for games of all types. \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e was also one of the most aesthetically impactful games of the twentieth century, lending its crisp, vector aesthetic to many subsequent movies, television shows, and video games. In this book, Ruggill and McAllister enumerate and analyze \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e's landmark qualities, exploring the game's aesthetics, development context, and connections to and impact on video game history and culture. By describing the game in technical, historical, and ludic detail, they unpack the game's latent and manifest audio-visual iconography and the ideological meanings this iconography evokes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judd Ethan Ruggill,Ken S. McAllister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472052691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472052691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2016","brand":"Judd Ethan Ruggill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086699671807,"sku":"9780472052691","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99035e2c-91ae-407a-8a4f-5848ebe52c05.jpg?v=1769096064","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tempest-judd-ethan-ruggill-9780472052691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}