A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Paperback - Raph Koster

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and exami...

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Chris Barney's Pattern Language for Game Design builds on the revolutionary work of architect Christopher Alexander to show students, teachers, and...

The success of storytelling in games depends on the entire development team--game designers, artists, writers, programmers and musicians, etc.--wor...

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Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. His starting-point is that reality provides the data...

An examination of subversive games--games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.For many players, games are entertainment, diversi...

Now in its third edition, the classic book on game design has been completely revised to include the latest developments in the game industry. Read...

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This edited collection of chapters concerns the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in video games. Games are an interactive medium, and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roslyn RossHuman beings can relate to one another with either mutual respect and freedom or mutual attempts to control and ...

A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an ...

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Reducere. Description GAME THEORYFor game theorists, a game is the interaction between two or more people wherein the payoff for each person is affected by t...

The reissue of this work as a Routledge Classic brings some radical ideas to a new audience, and argues persuasively for a totally new way of readi...

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DescriptionThe explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of th...

DescriptionAlthough written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's ...

DescriptionPresents over 100 sets of questions, or different lenses, for viewing a game's design. Written by one of the world's top game designers,...

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Legal thinkers typically justify contract law on the basis of economics or promissory morality. But Peter Benson takes another approach. He argues ...

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Reducere. GAME THEORYAlthough game theory as a salient concept is relatively young, the principles behind game theory have for millennia allowed humans to an...

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DescriptionMaking a successful video game is hard. Even games that are well-received at launch may fail to engage players in the long term due to i...

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Contributor(s): Author: Leon FestingerLeon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential ...