{"id":2905,"date":"2013-01-03T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2013-01-04T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T06:25:17","slug":"radical-books-of-2012-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/radical-books-of-2012-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Books of 2012 (3\/7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;padding: 0 8px 8px 0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.sevenstories.com\/products\/rise-of-the-videogame\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/rise_of_the_videogame.png\" alt=\"Rise of the Videogame Zinesters\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2912\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h4>Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form<br \/>\nAnna Anthropy<\/h4>\n<p>Seven Stories Press &middot; 208 pages<\/p>\n<p>The discussion of mainstream gaming in this book, while it isn&#8217;t exactly generous, covers both what is produced and the labor issues of how it is produced. The book&#8217;s DIY instructions point readers to tools and sketch the simplest sorts of development processes. (Such pointers may be what a book does best, as there is plenty of relevant information online.) What makes this book valuable and radical (other than the conceptual writing exercise cataloging game topics on pp. 137-139) is the amazing world it presupposes in which <i>Halo<\/i> and <i>Bioshock<\/i> can go unmentioned while there are pages about Anthropy&#8217;s <i>Gay Sniper.<\/i> Unofficial games made by individuals are shown to be part of culture and the politial and social discourse. Beyond newsgame and artgame, although not detached from some of their tactics, are many short experiments, games about &#8220;putting down your dog&#8221; that speak to everyday experience. Games that say what you want them to say and not games that say what someone else wants you to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form Anna Anthropy Seven Stories Press &middot; 208 pages The discussion of mainstream gaming in this book, while it isn&#8217;t exactly generous, covers both what is produced and the labor issues of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2013\/01\/radical-books-of-2012-37\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radical Books of 2012 (3\/7)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,18,17,11,7,13],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1k","tag-books","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-review","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}