Description: As the first edited collection dedicated solely to video game production, this volume provides a timely resource for anyone interested in how games are made and at what cost.
Brief description: Jan Svelch is a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Czechia.
Review Quotes: "The outstanding collection Game Production Studies, edited by Sotamaa and Svelch (2021), exemplifies critical games' studies potential to speak to wider sociocultural, political, and economic contexts, to leverage diverse methodologies and theoretical frameworks, and to work across disciplinary boundaries."
- Felan Parker, Creative Industries Journal, December 2021
- Annakaisa Kultima, Game Studies, Volume 21, Issue 4 (2021) "An excellent and much-needed collection exploring the politics, economics, and cultures of the contexts of games production. Essential reading for anyone interested in the making of games, with chapters engaging in theoretically and methodologically innovative studies spanning diverse geographic contexts and sites of production."
- Alison Harvey, York University "This timely, authoritative and accessible volume is underpinned by a collective concern not only to describe and analyse game production, but also to identify and suggest more equitable and sustainable alternatives to current labour and production practices. As such it will prove a key text in study of games and games production, and the digital cultural industries more generally."
- Seth Giddings, University of Southampton