| Description |
1 online resource : text file, PDF |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- 1: Introduction -- The Problem with Winning -- What is Situational Game Design? -- Making Meaning with Games -- Summary -- 2: Situations, Constraints, and Moves -- Constraints -- Moves -- The Game as Understood -- Pre-Existing Constraints -- Interpretive Moves -- Summary -- 3: Playfulness -- Choice -- Variety -- Consequence -- Predictability -- Uncertainty -- Satisfaction -- Summary -- 4: Anticipation -- Characteristics of Anticipatory Play |
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Cuing ClosureThe Result of Anticipatory Play -- Cruxes -- Summary -- 5: Goals -- Coherence Play -- Expansion Play -- Closure Play -- Summary -- 6: Methods -- Designing Moves -- Designing Situations and Constraints -- Designing Games -- Summary -- 7: Narrative -- Narrative Constraints and Situations -- Narrative Play -- Games as Stories -- Summary -- 8: Meaning -- The Ludic Sign -- The Epistemological Cycle -- Ludic Semiosis -- How Games Make Meaning -- Summary |
| Summary |
"Situational Design lays out a new methodology for designing and critiquing videogames. While most game design books focus on games as formal systems, Situational Design concentrates squarely on player experience. It looks at how playfulness is not a property of a game considered in isolation, but rather the result of the intersection of a game with an appropriate player. Starting from simple concepts, the book advances step-by-step to build up a set of practical tools for designing player-centric playful situations. While these tools provide a fresh perspective on familiar design challenges as well as those overlooked by more transactional design paradigms."--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Video games -- Authorship.
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Video games -- Design
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Games -- Psychological aspects
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Game theory.
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Situation (Philosophy)
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Computer games -- Design
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Game theory
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Games -- Psychological aspects
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Situation (Philosophy)
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Video games -- Authorship
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315398020 |
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1315398028 |
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9781315398013 |
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131539801X |
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