Hideo Kojima
eBook - ePub

Hideo Kojima

Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hideo Kojima

Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding

About this book

An exploration of the influential work of Hideo Kojima, creator of cinematic titles such as the blockbuster Metal Gear Solid franchise, which has moved over 50 million units globally, as well as Snatcher, Policenauts, and Death Stranding. As the architect of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, Kojima is synonymous with the "stealth game" genre, where tension and excitement is created from players avoiding enemies rather than confronting them. Through the franchise, Kojima also helped to bridge the gap between games and other forms of media, arguing that games could be deep experiences that unearthed complex emotions from players on the same level as films or novels. Drawing on archives of interviews in English and Japanese with Kojima and his team, as well as academic discourses of social/political games and cinematic narrative/world-building, this book examines Kojima's progressive game design as it applies to four key areas: socially-relevant narratives, cinematic aesthetics, thematically-connected systems, and reflexive spaces.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9798765101698
eBook ISBN
9798765101650
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Digital Media
Index
Computer Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Note on Translation and Names
  11. Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE CULT OF KOJIMA
  12. Chapter 2 ENTER KONAMI: DESIGNING EXPERIENCES FOR THE MSX
  13. Chapter 3 SMALL TEAMS, BIG WORLDS: PLAYING DETECTIVE IN SNATCHER AND POLICENAUTS
  14. Chapter 4 THE PROGRESSIVE FRANCHISE: KOJIPRO’S COLLECTIVE DESIGN IN METAL GEAR SOLID
  15. Chapter 5 LIVE OPS: BUILDING CONNECTIONS IN OPEN WORLDS
  16. Chapter 6 KOJIPRO’S LEGACY AND FUTURE
  17. Gameography
  18. Notes
  19. Works Cited
  20. Index
  21. Copyright