num_pages: 280
description: In Gamers, writers, artists, scholars, poets, and programmers talk about what gaming means to them and discuss the growing impact of video games on fashion, fiction, film, and music. Essays feature a glittering mix of topics from the esoteric to the purely gender identity in relation to gaming, video golf as a meditative exercise, Ms. Pacman versus The Sims, the similarities between writing fiction and programming, the confessions of a video poker junkie, and much more.
language: English
title: Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels
titlecomplete: Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels
genres: Nonfiction, Games, Gaming, Essays
ratings_count: 42
publisher: Soft Skull