Godwin Ma Adam (13 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 69 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.18 inches. In Stock.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Pinball serves as a perfect metaphor for life. The ball is launched into a world it did not build. The player is given partial control, distracted by rewards, punished for hesitation, and rescued by luck. The ball is a purely reflective surface, with no colour of its own, and its fate is sealed as soon as it is launched: gravity always wins in the end. Where does the ball go when it meets its doom Never mind. an identical one replaces it! The Philosophy of Pinball is a playful, personal and serious-minded book about what pinball reveals when we stop treating it as mere amusement. Adam Godwin writes from a love of the game, but also from the suspicion that pinball is one of the best ways to understand life. The game is physical, noisy, comic and unforgiving, yet it keeps returning us to questions philosophers have worried over for centuries: how much control do we really have, what should we do with chance, why do we chase scores, and what does it mean to play well when the end is never in doubt Across its chapters, the book explores freedom and constraint, courage and risk, death and the final drain, flow and bodily intelligence, ego and the high score, nostalgia, addiction, improvisation, restraint, playable art, machine design, and the peculiar dignity of trying again after failure. It moves between philosophy, cultural history, literature, psychology, aesthetics, game studies, and the author's own descent into an LSD-fueled pinball obsession. The book draws on Aristotle, Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Dewey, Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Bernard Suits, C. Thi Nguyen and Johan Huizinga, alongside novels, academic studies and the lived culture of pinball itself. Its central claim is simple: aside from being the greatest game ever devised by the minds of men - pinball is a profound vehicle for philosophical exploration and reflection. By understanding pinball deeply one can understand the secrets of wise living. The Philosophy of Pinball: What Pinball Teaches Us About Life is for players, collectors, philosophers, arcade nostalgics, game designers, and anyone who has watched the ball disappear between the flippers and immediately reached for the start button again. The ball will always drain. The game always ends.The question is.what you do before it does.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A Chronology of Videogame History presents a detailed event-by-event account of the development of videogames, from their technological and cultural precursors to the modern global industry. Arranged in strict chronological order, it traces important games, consoles, computers, companies, creators, technologies, genres, design innovations, commercial developments, sales milestones, legal disputes, controversies, the development of online gaming, esports, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and wider changes in gaming culture.Designed as both a reference work and a continuous historical record, the chronology brings together major landmarks alongside lesser-known developments that helped shape the medium. It will be of particular interest to videogame historians, researchers, collectors, developers, journalists, students and anyone seeking a detailed overview of how modern gaming developed. …

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.