by Ruth S. Contreras, José Luis Eguia, Alejandro Lozano Muñoz · Editorial Uoc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490643716
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«Juegos multijugador. El poder de las redes en el entretenimiento» is the essay by Ruth S. Contreras, José Luis Eguia and Alejandro Lozano Muñoz.
The book studies the predominance of multiplayer over single-player gaming and understands video games as social spaces. It explains concepts such as MMORPG, free-to-play and mod, and analyses their contribution to transmedia worlds. It also reviews the journey of video games from university laboratories in the 1970s to their central place in today's culture.
Volume 329 of the Manuales collection from Editorial UOC (2014). Paperback, 138 pages, in Spanish, with a foreword by Gonzalo Frasca.
Aimed at students and teachers of multimedia, video games and communication, it serves as an introduction or supplementary reading.
