History of Digital Games in Turkey

Authors

  • Erdal Yilmaz
  • Kursat Cagiltay

Keywords:

local game history, turkish digital games

Abstract

As an important entertainment tool, “digital games” has been used by several hundred millions of people all around the world for almost 30 years. Although the number of game players and total game-play time in Turkey shows parallel figures to the world average, unfortunately very limited digital game development activities and academic studies regarding this issue exist. Therefore, this study aims to summarize the history and current situation of digital games and game industry in Turkey.

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Published

2005-01-01

Bibtex

@Conference{digra128, title ="History of Digital Games in Turkey", year = "2005", author = "Yilmaz, Erdal and Cagiltay, Kursat", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/128}", booktitle = "Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views: Worlds in Play"}

Proceedings

2005: Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views: Worlds in Play

Section

Papers

License

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