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  • The Rule Book

    The Building Blocks of Games

    de Jaakko Stenros, Markus Montola ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    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 is central to games. But what, in fact, are rules? In The Rule Book, Jaakko Stenros and Markus ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Persuasive Games

    The Expressive Power of Videogames

    de Ian Bogost ...
    An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Art of Failure

    An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games

    de Jesper Juul ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    A gaming academic offers a “fascinating” exploration of why we play video games—despite the unhappiness we feel when we fail at them (Boston Globe)We may think of video games as being “fun,” but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of happiness or bliss. Instead, we frown, grimace, and ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Game Design Reader

    A Rules of Play Anthology

    Edición de Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman ...
    Classic and cutting-edge writings on games, spanning nearly 50 years of game analysis and criticism, by game designers, game journalists, game fans, folklorists, sociologists, and media theorists.The Game Design Reader is a one-of-a-kind collection on game design and criticism, from classic scholarly essays to cutting-edge case studies. A companion work to Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman's textbook ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Coming of Age in Second Life

    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    de Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • Robot Ethics 2.0

    From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

    Edición de Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, Ryan Jenkins ...
    The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the ... Leer más

    $22.79 USD

  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    de Celia Pearce ...
    The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto

    Critical Essays

    Edición de Nate Garrelts ...
    The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto game series has inspired a range of reactions among players and commentators, and a hot debate in the popular media. These essays from diverse theoretical perspectives expand the discussion by focusing scholarly analysis on the games, particularly Grand Theft Auto III (GTA3), Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (GTA:VC), and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA:SA) ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Computer Games

    de Miguel Sicart ...
    Why computer games can be ethical, how players use their ethical values in gameplay, and the implications for game design.Despite the emergence of computer games as a dominant cultural industry (and the accompanying emergence of computer games as the subject of scholarly research), we know little or nothing about the ethics of computer games. Considerations of the morality of computer games seldom ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The PlayStation Dreamworld

    de Alfie Bown ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. It also argues that the Left needs to work inside this dreamspace – a powerful arena for constructing our desires – or ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • How to Play Video Games

    Edición de Matthew Thomas Payne, Nina B. Huntemann ...
    Series Libro 1 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    Forty original contributions on games and gaming cultureWhat does Pokémon Go tell us about globalization? What does Tetris teach us about rules? Is feminism boosted or bashed by Kim Kardashian: Hollywood? How does BioShock Infinite help us navigate world-building?From arcades to Atari, and phone apps to virtual reality headsets, video games have been at the epicenter of our ever-evolving ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Atari Age

    The Emergence of Video Games in America

    de Michael Z. Newman ...
    The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful).Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and taverns or in family rec rooms, became part of popular culture, like television. In fact, video games were ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD