The business of making digital games

Understanding Digital Games

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 36-57

  Kerr, Aphra ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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EID: 84952654562     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781446211397.n3     Document Type: Chapter

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