Playful Thinking – serie
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15 produkter
Achievement Relocked
Loss Aversion and Game Design
Inbunden, 2020
369 kr
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How game designers can use the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion to shape player experience. Getting something makes you feel good, and losing something makes you feel bad. But losing something makes you feel worse than getting the same thing makes you feel good. So finding $10 is a thrill; …
Making Games
The Politics and Poetics of Game Creation Tools
Inbunden, 2021
325 kr
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An argument that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive medium. In Making Games , Stefan Werning considers the role of tools (primarily but not exclusively software), their design affordances, and the role they play as sociotechnical actors. Drawing on …
Play Matters
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we are happy and well rested, we may approach even our …
How Games Move Us
Emotion by Design
Häftad, 2017
230 kr
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An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players, with examples from popular, indie, and art games.This is a renaissance moment for video games—in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But …
Beauty of Games
Av Frank Lantz
Häftad, 2025
214 kr
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How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about games and play in the twenty-first century, but it is fundamentally the wrong question. Instead, Frank Lantz proposes in his …
Play Like a Fangirl
Creative Desire in Video Games
Av Kristine Ask, Ashley Guajardo
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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How women and queer gamers express and elicit excitement, creativity, and desire in online gaming communities and beyond. How do cosplayers, modders, fan artists, fanfiction authors, and TikTok content creators build communities for marginalized and underserved fans of games? In Play Like a Fangirl …
Uncertainty in Games
Häftad, 2015
199 kr
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How uncertainty in games—from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors—engages players and shapes play experiences. In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the …
Rule Book
The Building Blocks of Games
Av Jaakko Stenros, Markus Montola
Häftad, 2024
525 kr
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How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work. Board games to sports, digital games to party games, gambling to role-playing games. They all share one thing in common: rules. Indeed, rules are the one and only thing game scholars agree …
Well-Read Game
On Playing Thoughtfully
Av Tracy Fullerton, Matthew Farber
Häftad, 2025
543 kr
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How players evoke personal and subjective meanings through a new theory of player response. In The Well-Read Game, Tracy Fullerton and Matthew Farber explore the experiences we have when we play games: not the outcomes of play or the aesthetics of formal game structures but the ephemeral and …
Zen and Slow Games
Häftad, 2026
495 kr
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A deep dive into the reflective modes of playfulness in video games. Slowness and reflectiveness have always been part of the video game medium, though they have been used very differently throughout its history. In Zen and Slow Games , Víctor Navarro-Remesal challenges the dominant discourse of …
Real Games
What's Legitimate and What's Not in Contemporary Videogames
Av Mia Consalvo, Christopher A. Paul
Inbunden, 2019
286 kr
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Playing Smart
On Games, Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence
Av Julian Togelius, Jesper Juul m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
217 kr
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Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
Inbunden, 2019
271 kr
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Art of Failure
An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Av Jesper Juul
Häftad, 2016
163 kr
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