Binding: Hardcover
Description: As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week: a dazzling look at modern videogame worlds seen through an architectural lens utilizing maps diagrams and graphic illustrations to offer new perspectives on the art of virtual world building. Videogame Atlas presents a journey through twelve well - known videogame worlds via panoramic maps intricate exploded diagrams and detailed illustrations. The book offers a playful new way of seeing these beloved virtual worlds using the practices and academic rigour that underpins real - world architectural theory. Titles such as Minecraft Assassin's Creed Unity and Final Fantasy VII are explored in exhaustive detail through over 200 detailed illustrations of the micro and macro each with supporting commentary and architectural theory. Taking influence from high - end architectural monographs the book is carefully designed to the smallest of details and its production is intricately executed. This book printed in five colours with neon ink throughout is a culmination of Luke and Sandra's work which includes founding the Videogame Urbanism studio at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL that promotes the use of game technologies in architectural education.
Title: Videogame Atlas Mapping Interactive Worlds
Author(s): Youkhana Sandra
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500024232
Pages: 288 Pages, 484 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 11/22/2022
Category: Virtual Worlds