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Games and gaming: an introduction to new media
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From the Publisher : World of Warcraft is more than a game. There is no ultimate goal, no winning hard, no princess to be rescued. WoW contains more than 5,000 possible quests, games within the game, and encompasses hundreds of separate parallel realms (computer serves, each of …
"World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers -- officially making it an online community of gamers that had more inhabitants than the state of Ohio and was almost twice as populous as Scotland. It's…
Gameplay mode: war, simulation, and technoculture
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"From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008's Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. To understand their place in contemporary cul…
"Most books on digital media focus on what the machines of digital media look like from the outside but ignore the computational machines that make digital media possible. With this book, the first to approach computational processes from the perspective of media, games, and fic…
A Theory of Fun for Game Design is not your typical how-to book. It features a novel way of teaching interactive designers how to create and improve their designs to incorporate the highest degree of fun. As the book shows, designing for fun is all about making interactive produ…
"If you are interested in game structure and design you'll really enjoy how A Theory of Fun works on two levels - as a quick inspiration guide for game designers, and as a thought-provoking discussion on how we learn, why we play games, and how learning -- P. 4 de la p. de couv.
"If you are interested in game structure and design you'll really enjoy how A Theory of Fun works on two levels - as a quick inspiration guide for game designers, and as a thought-provoking discussion on how we learn, why we play games, and how learning and playing are connected…
"If you are interested in game structure and design you'll really enjoy how A Theory of Fun works on two levels - as a quick inspiration guide for game designers, and as a thought-provoking discussion on how we learn, why we play games, and how learning and playing are connected…