WASD - Bookazine for game culture

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WASD - Bookazine for Games Culture is a biannual bookazine (mixture of book and magazine) for computer and video games. The name of the publication goes back to the key assignment of the same name .

The WASD published twice a year and is supported by radio journalists Christian Schiffer edited and graphic designer Markus Weiss Horn in his own small publishing house, the Sea of Sundries publisher based in Munich. The first edition appeared in June 2012.

content

According to the journalist Marco Maurer in the Süddeutsche Zeitung it is the aim of the WASD "to help establish a computer game feature section." The Bookazine does without the percentages common in computer game journalism and does not publish any game previews. Instead, articles are published that deal culturally with computer games. So far, WASD has published texts on sexism and militarism in computer games, but also on the portrayal of poverty in games. Critical background reports, for example on the free-to-play business model, or stories that, with their ironic distance, are understandable even for laypeople, are part of the bookazine. Reporting on the growing indie game scene is also of particular importance.

Each issue has a key topic. Since the second issue, there have also been regular columns, written for example by FM4 employee Robert Glashüttner. Since the third edition, WASD has also included the quartet game of the video game scandals , an ongoing collection of the most important computer game scandals in the form of a quartet game .

The online branches of Der Spiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Die Zeit , Der Standard , Wired and VICE regularly publish texts from WASD .

Focus of spending

output publication title theme pages
1 Summer 2012 Tasty trash Bad games 204
2 Winter 2012 Select system Games & Politics 212
3 summer 2013 Scandal! Excitement in the game culture 212
4th Winter 2013 Level up! The future of game culture 208
5 Summer 2014 Insert Coin Computer games and the love of money 204
6th Winter 2014 Rewind retro New thoughts on old games 228
7th Summer 2015 Love Hate Whoever wants to play has to feel 202
8th Winter 2015 Break out! Freedom and computer games 202
9 Summer 2016 Once Upon a Game About storytelling in computer games 208
10 Winter 2016 Game over Video games and death 208
11 Summer 2017 Revolution! Games and Change 196
12 Winter 2017 Fun! Fun! Fun! Computer games and fun 212
13 Summer 2018 War and games War and computer games 202
14th Winter 2018 Amounted to About cheating in computer games
15th Summer 2019 Nice Aesthetics and computer games 224
16 Winter 2019 justice Fairness and computer games 200

Authors

The following authors have contributed to WASD : Achim Bogdahn , Jan Fischer , Joachim Friedmann , Jolyne Schürmann , Burckhard Garbe , Katja Huber , Christian Huberts , Wladimir Kaminer , Karoline Schaum , Thomas Lindemann , Gunnar Lott , Carolin Matzko , Lukas Meschik , Alexander Pschera , Rudolf Inderst , Nils Bokelberg , Jim Rossignol and Christian Schiffer .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marco Maurer : Into the keys . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 18, 2012, accessed from Marco Maurer's private website on September 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Quentin Lichtblau: For me, GTA is the moral painting of our time . nun.sueddeutsche.de, June 18, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Pascal Paukner: Where feminism counts as "terrorism" . Sueddeutsche.de, June 23, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Christian Huberts : Medium of Power Capitalists . Sueddeutsche.de, June 24, 2014, accessed September 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Klarabella Kuh (pseudonym): A Free2Play insider does the math: How the free game industry lies and ticks . In: Der Standard , June 19, 2014, accessed September 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Kurt Sagatz, Nico Schmidt: “More mind, please!” In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 11, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2015.
  7. ↑ Christoph Gurk: Scandals & Games ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 22, 2012, accessed on September 17, 2015.
  8. ↑ WASD # 1 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  9. ↑ WASD 01. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  10. ↑ WASD # 2 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  11. ↑ WASD 02. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  12. ↑ WASD # 3 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  13. ↑ WASD 03. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  14. ↑ WASD # 4 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  15. ↑ WASD 04. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  16. ↑ WASD # 5 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  17. ↑ WASD 05. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  18. ↑ WASD # 6 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  19. ↑ WASD 06. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  20. ↑ WASD # 7 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  21. ↑ WASD 07. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  22. ↑ WASD # 8 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  23. ↑ WASD 08. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  24. ↑ WASD # 9 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  25. ^ WASD 09. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  26. ↑ WASD # 10 - Bookazine for game culture. In: Slanted. Slanted Publishers, accessed January 19, 2017 .
  27. ^ WASD 10. In: WASD. Sea of ​​Sundries Publishing, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Warm handshake 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kaliban.de
  29. ↑ Category: 11th Magazine Award: Bronze Year 2013
  30. ↑ [1] Red Dot Design Award 2013
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  34. ↑ Detail: German Design Award. In: www.german-design-award.com. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Bavarian Print Media Prize 2016: The Race for Nike | Bayerischer Printmedienpreis 2016. (No longer available online.) In: www.bayerischer-printmedienpreis.de. Archived from the original on November 18, 2016 ; Retrieved November 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayerischer-printmedienpreis.de
  36. ↑ Games Week Berlin 2018: Games Media Prize awarded for the first time. In: Gameswirtschaft.de. April 24, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .