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In the past three decades Finland's video game industry has become the backbone of Finnish cultural export. Angry Birds and Clash of Clans are dominating sales around the world and the small Nordic nation has become a gaming superpower. Drawing on more than 60 interviews, this book covers the Finnish video game phenomenon as told by the people behind its success. The history of the industry is documented in detail for the first time. Two hundred game reviews are included, presenting the best (and worst) of commercial video games made in Finland.
In the past three decades Finland's video game industry has become the backbone of Finnish cultural export. Angry Birds and Clash of Clans are dominating sales around the world and the small Nordic nation has become a gaming superpower. Drawing on more than 60 interviews, this book covers the Finnish video game phenomenon as told by the people behind its success. The history of the industry is documented in detail for the first time. Two hundred game reviews are included, presenting the best (and worst) of commercial video games made in Finland.
Über den Autor
Juho Kuorikoski is a Finnish journalist and a contributor at Pelit magazine, the biggest video game magazine in Scandinavia. Kuorikoski received the Power Player of the Year (2014) Award from the Game Developers Association of Finland. He lives in Finland.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Primordial Ooze and Commodore 64, 1979-1989
The Original Gangsters
The Man Behind Uuno Turhapuro
Entertainment from Across the Pond
The Birth of Game Journalism
The Games
Raharuhtinas (1984)21Tsapp! and Tsapp! 16 (1984)2310...Knock Out (1985)24Joe the Whizz Kid (1985)26Space Satellite (1985)26Yleisurheilu (1985)28Miner Machine (1986)28Painterboy (1986)28Sanxion (1986)30Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (1986)31Delta (1987)32Octapolis (1987)33Quedex (1987)33Sceptre of Baghdad (1987)34Netherworld (1988)35Zamzara (1988)35
Born in the Basement, 1990-1999
The Demo Scene Brings Players Together
The Great Old Ones Are Born
The Angry Bird of Its Time
The New Face of Finnish Games Journalism
The Games
Slicks'n Slide (1990)54Moonfall (1991)55Turboraketti (1992)57UnReal World (1992 [2013])57Stardust (1993)58Elfmania (1994)59Super Stardust (1994)61Alien Incident (1996)62Damage: The Sadistic Butchering of Humanity (1996)64Death Rally (1996)65Rally-Sport (1996)67Ski Jump International 2 (1996)67Triplane Turmoil (1996)68Legal Crime (1997)68The Reap (1997)69Maagi (1998)69The Blobjob (1998)70BoaBite 3D (1999)71Drop Mania (1999)72Supreme Snowboarding (1999)72Thrust, Twist'n Turn (1999)74
WAP, Max and Conquering the Globe, 2000-2004
Max the Action Man
Drifting Around Corners
The Domestic Console Development Kicks into Gear
Game Journalism Expands Its Horizons
The Blue-and-White Game Console
The Lynx Lurking in the Communicator
The Mobile Studios Strike Back
Technology Does Not a Mobile Game Make
The Grand Opening of an Online Hotel
Straighten the Ranks
The Games
Puzzle Station (2000)100Ski Jump International 3 (2000)100Deluxe Ski Jump (2001)101Max Payne (2001)101Rally Trophy (2001)103Rampage Puzzle Attack (2001)105Bones: The First Adventure (2002)105Porrasturvat-Stair Dismount (2002)106Racing Fever (2002)106Transworld Snowboarding (2002)106Crimsonland (2003)108Flo Boarding (2003)108Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003)109Space Station Manager (2003)110Tough Trucks: Modified Monsters (2003)111Zoy's Rescue Mission and Zoy's Rescue Mission 2 (2003)112Deluxe Ski Jump 3 (2004)113FlatOut (2004)113Johnny Crash (2004)115Jumbo Rumble (2004)115Mafia Wars (2004)116Mole Wars (2004)116Pitfall: The Lost Expedition Glacier and Pitfall: The Lost Expedition Jungle (2004)117Racing Fever 2 (2004)117Santa's Rush Hour (2004)118Street Soccer (2004)118Sumea Ski Jump (2004)119Sumo Smash! (2004)119Turbo Camels (2004)119Turbo Sliders (2004)121
Industrial Revolution, 2005-2007
A Frozen Byte Vaporized
Stardust Takes Over the World
Recoil versus Remedy
Life in a Hotel
2007: An Economic Growth Odyssey
Mobile Games Are Off to See the World
The Curse of the License
Optimization Is Business
Education of the Third Degree
The Games
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)136Glimmerati (2005)137High Seize (2005)138Metal Smash Pinball (2005)138Pathway to Glory and Pathway to Glory: Ikusa Islands (2005)139Shadowgrounds (2005)140ShortHike (2005)141Super Drop Mania (2005)142Tower Bloxx (2005)142Bounce Out (2006)143Bowling Evolution (2006)143Cyber Blood (2006)143Darkest Fear (2006)144Desert Sniper/U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper/Marine Sniper (2006)145FlatOut 2 (2006)146Paid to Kill (2006)147Pile Up! (2006)148Playman Beach Volley 3D (2006)148Playman World Soccer (2006)149SiL-The Silhouette Game (2006)149Triplane Turmoil 2 (2006)150Turbo Camels Circus Extreme (2006)150War Diary: Burma, War Diary: Crusader and War Diary: Torpedo (2006)151Wolfmoon (2006)152Burnout (2007)152Darkest Fear 2: Grim Oak and Darkest Fear 3: Nightmare (2007)153FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage (2007)153Magic Inlay (2007)154Patron Angel (2007)155Puzzle Scape (2007)155Sega Rally Revo (2007)156Shadowgrounds Survivor (2007)158Sparkle (2007)158Star Marine (2007)159Super Stardust HD (2007)159Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command (2007)160
The Apple, 2008-2011
Bird Flu Spreading
Down Comes the Axe
From Gaming Phones to Services
Touch Me, Alan
The Rumbling Digital Distribution Wonder
Recoil Hits the Downturn
The Games
Bounce Boing Voyage (2008)181De Blob (2008)181Formula GP Racing (2008)182Golf: Tee It Up! (2008)183Monster Trucks Nitro (2008)184Playman Summer Games 3 (2008)184Reset Generation (2008)185Smash Kart Racing (2008)185South Park Imaginationland (2008)187Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)187Super Stardust Portable (2008)188The Tales of Bingwood-Chapter I: To Save a Princess (2008)189Talvisota: Icy Hell (2008)190Tiki Towers (2008)192Totomi (2008)193Trials 2 and Trials 2: Second Edition (2008)193Wacky Races: Crash and Dash (2008)195Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II (2009)196Angry Birds (2009)196Azkend (2009)198Bounce Tales (2009)198Collapse! (2009)199Crayon Physics Deluxe (2009)199DrawRace (2009)201East India Company (2009)202Monster Trucks: Nitro II (2009)202Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies (2009)203Shattered Horizon (2009)204Super Collapse (2009)205Treasure Grab (2009)205Trine (2009)206Trials HD (2009)208Zen Bound (2009)209Alan Wake (2010)209Beat City (2010)211Commander: Conquest of the Americas (2010)213Dead Nation (2010)214Floorball League (2010)215Kung-Fu Live (2010)216Lead the Meerkats (2010)216Lucid (2010)217Marble Mixer (2010)218Vancouver 2010 (2010)218Zen Bound 2 (2010)2191000 Heroz (2011)219Bad Air Day (2011)220Bike Baron (2011)221Cabals: The Card Game (2011)224Cities in Motion (2011)225DrawRace 2 (2011)226Jack Claw (2011)226Kung Fu High Impact (2011)227MotoHeroz (2011)228Outland (2011)229Pirates of Black Cove (2011)230Rochard (2011)231Tiki Towers 2 (2011)232Twilight Series (2011)232Trine 2 (2011)233
Free Is the New Black, 2012-2013
Free-to-Lunch
The Indie Scene Rises
We Are the Investors
The Great Old Ones Strike Back
Crowd-Powered
New from Old
Down Comes the Axe Again
The Games
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (2012)260Amazing Alex (2012)261Angry Birds Space (2012)262Angry Birds Star Wars (2012)263Bad Piggies (2012)265Clash of Clans (2012)267Deluxe Ski Jump 4 (2012)269Hay Day (2012)269Hill Climb Racing (2012)271Legend of Grimrock (2012)272Lucius (2012)273Ridge Racer Unbounded (2012)275Shardlands (2012)277Starcrossed (2012)278Super Stardust Delta (2012)278Swordigo (2012)279Tiny Troopers (2012)280Trials Evolution (2012)281Angry Birds Go (2013)282Angry Birds Star Wars II (2013)283Badland (2013)285Benji Bananas (2013)286Cities in Motion 2 (2013)286Driftmoon (2013)288Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold (2013)289Kinghunt (2013)290Noble Nutlings (2013)291Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (2013)292Resogun (2013)294Supernauts (2013)295The Swapper (2013)297Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops (2013)298Trials Frontier (2013)299
To Infinity and Beyond!
Bibliography
Index
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Primordial Ooze and Commodore 64, 1979-1989
The Original Gangsters
The Man Behind Uuno Turhapuro
Entertainment from Across the Pond
The Birth of Game Journalism
The Games
Raharuhtinas (1984)21Tsapp! and Tsapp! 16 (1984)2310...Knock Out (1985)24Joe the Whizz Kid (1985)26Space Satellite (1985)26Yleisurheilu (1985)28Miner Machine (1986)28Painterboy (1986)28Sanxion (1986)30Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (1986)31Delta (1987)32Octapolis (1987)33Quedex (1987)33Sceptre of Baghdad (1987)34Netherworld (1988)35Zamzara (1988)35
Born in the Basement, 1990-1999
The Demo Scene Brings Players Together
The Great Old Ones Are Born
The Angry Bird of Its Time
The New Face of Finnish Games Journalism
The Games
Slicks'n Slide (1990)54Moonfall (1991)55Turboraketti (1992)57UnReal World (1992 [2013])57Stardust (1993)58Elfmania (1994)59Super Stardust (1994)61Alien Incident (1996)62Damage: The Sadistic Butchering of Humanity (1996)64Death Rally (1996)65Rally-Sport (1996)67Ski Jump International 2 (1996)67Triplane Turmoil (1996)68Legal Crime (1997)68The Reap (1997)69Maagi (1998)69The Blobjob (1998)70BoaBite 3D (1999)71Drop Mania (1999)72Supreme Snowboarding (1999)72Thrust, Twist'n Turn (1999)74
WAP, Max and Conquering the Globe, 2000-2004
Max the Action Man
Drifting Around Corners
The Domestic Console Development Kicks into Gear
Game Journalism Expands Its Horizons
The Blue-and-White Game Console
The Lynx Lurking in the Communicator
The Mobile Studios Strike Back
Technology Does Not a Mobile Game Make
The Grand Opening of an Online Hotel
Straighten the Ranks
The Games
Puzzle Station (2000)100Ski Jump International 3 (2000)100Deluxe Ski Jump (2001)101Max Payne (2001)101Rally Trophy (2001)103Rampage Puzzle Attack (2001)105Bones: The First Adventure (2002)105Porrasturvat-Stair Dismount (2002)106Racing Fever (2002)106Transworld Snowboarding (2002)106Crimsonland (2003)108Flo Boarding (2003)108Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (2003)109Space Station Manager (2003)110Tough Trucks: Modified Monsters (2003)111Zoy's Rescue Mission and Zoy's Rescue Mission 2 (2003)112Deluxe Ski Jump 3 (2004)113FlatOut (2004)113Johnny Crash (2004)115Jumbo Rumble (2004)115Mafia Wars (2004)116Mole Wars (2004)116Pitfall: The Lost Expedition Glacier and Pitfall: The Lost Expedition Jungle (2004)117Racing Fever 2 (2004)117Santa's Rush Hour (2004)118Street Soccer (2004)118Sumea Ski Jump (2004)119Sumo Smash! (2004)119Turbo Camels (2004)119Turbo Sliders (2004)121
Industrial Revolution, 2005-2007
A Frozen Byte Vaporized
Stardust Takes Over the World
Recoil versus Remedy
Life in a Hotel
2007: An Economic Growth Odyssey
Mobile Games Are Off to See the World
The Curse of the License
Optimization Is Business
Education of the Third Degree
The Games
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)136Glimmerati (2005)137High Seize (2005)138Metal Smash Pinball (2005)138Pathway to Glory and Pathway to Glory: Ikusa Islands (2005)139Shadowgrounds (2005)140ShortHike (2005)141Super Drop Mania (2005)142Tower Bloxx (2005)142Bounce Out (2006)143Bowling Evolution (2006)143Cyber Blood (2006)143Darkest Fear (2006)144Desert Sniper/U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper/Marine Sniper (2006)145FlatOut 2 (2006)146Paid to Kill (2006)147Pile Up! (2006)148Playman Beach Volley 3D (2006)148Playman World Soccer (2006)149SiL-The Silhouette Game (2006)149Triplane Turmoil 2 (2006)150Turbo Camels Circus Extreme (2006)150War Diary: Burma, War Diary: Crusader and War Diary: Torpedo (2006)151Wolfmoon (2006)152Burnout (2007)152Darkest Fear 2: Grim Oak and Darkest Fear 3: Nightmare (2007)153FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage (2007)153Magic Inlay (2007)154Patron Angel (2007)155Puzzle Scape (2007)155Sega Rally Revo (2007)156Shadowgrounds Survivor (2007)158Sparkle (2007)158Star Marine (2007)159Super Stardust HD (2007)159Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command (2007)160
The Apple, 2008-2011
Bird Flu Spreading
Down Comes the Axe
From Gaming Phones to Services
Touch Me, Alan
The Rumbling Digital Distribution Wonder
Recoil Hits the Downturn
The Games
Bounce Boing Voyage (2008)181De Blob (2008)181Formula GP Racing (2008)182Golf: Tee It Up! (2008)183Monster Trucks Nitro (2008)184Playman Summer Games 3 (2008)184Reset Generation (2008)185Smash Kart Racing (2008)185South Park Imaginationland (2008)187Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)187Super Stardust Portable (2008)188The Tales of Bingwood-Chapter I: To Save a Princess (2008)189Talvisota: Icy Hell (2008)190Tiki Towers (2008)192Totomi (2008)193Trials 2 and Trials 2: Second Edition (2008)193Wacky Races: Crash and Dash (2008)195Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II (2009)196Angry Birds (2009)196Azkend (2009)198Bounce Tales (2009)198Collapse! (2009)199Crayon Physics Deluxe (2009)199DrawRace (2009)201East India Company (2009)202Monster Trucks: Nitro II (2009)202Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies (2009)203Shattered Horizon (2009)204Super Collapse (2009)205Treasure Grab (2009)205Trine (2009)206Trials HD (2009)208Zen Bound (2009)209Alan Wake (2010)209Beat City (2010)211Commander: Conquest of the Americas (2010)213Dead Nation (2010)214Floorball League (2010)215Kung-Fu Live (2010)216Lead the Meerkats (2010)216Lucid (2010)217Marble Mixer (2010)218Vancouver 2010 (2010)218Zen Bound 2 (2010)2191000 Heroz (2011)219Bad Air Day (2011)220Bike Baron (2011)221Cabals: The Card Game (2011)224Cities in Motion (2011)225DrawRace 2 (2011)226Jack Claw (2011)226Kung Fu High Impact (2011)227MotoHeroz (2011)228Outland (2011)229Pirates of Black Cove (2011)230Rochard (2011)231Tiki Towers 2 (2011)232Twilight Series (2011)232Trine 2 (2011)233
Free Is the New Black, 2012-2013
Free-to-Lunch
The Indie Scene Rises
We Are the Investors
The Great Old Ones Strike Back
Crowd-Powered
New from Old
Down Comes the Axe Again
The Games
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (2012)260Amazing Alex (2012)261Angry Birds Space (2012)262Angry Birds Star Wars (2012)263Bad Piggies (2012)265Clash of Clans (2012)267Deluxe Ski Jump 4 (2012)269Hay Day (2012)269Hill Climb Racing (2012)271Legend of Grimrock (2012)272Lucius (2012)273Ridge Racer Unbounded (2012)275Shardlands (2012)277Starcrossed (2012)278Super Stardust Delta (2012)278Swordigo (2012)279Tiny Troopers (2012)280Trials Evolution (2012)281Angry Birds Go (2013)282Angry Birds Star Wars II (2013)283Badland (2013)285Benji Bananas (2013)286Cities in Motion 2 (2013)286Driftmoon (2013)288Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold (2013)289Kinghunt (2013)290Noble Nutlings (2013)291Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (2013)292Resogun (2013)294Supernauts (2013)295The Swapper (2013)297Tiny Troopers 2: Special Ops (2013)298Trials Frontier (2013)299
To Infinity and Beyond!
Bibliography
Index
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| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Hobby & Freizeit |
| Thema: | Spielen & Raten |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780786499625 |
| ISBN-10: | 0786499621 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kuorikoski, Juho |
| Hersteller: | McFarland |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 254 x 178 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Juho Kuorikoski |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 30.05.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,626 kg |
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