• Title: Persuasive Gaming in Context
• Author(s) Teresa de la Hera, Jeroen Jansz, Joost Raessens, Ben Schouten
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press (March 23, 2021); eBook (Creative Commons Edition, 2021)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-ND
• Hardcover: 264 pages
• eBook: PDF (266 pages)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9463728805
• ISBN-13: 978-9463728805
• Share This:  

Book Description

The rapid developments in new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has translated into an exponential growth of the game industry in recent decades.

The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called 'persuasive games', that is, gaming practices that combine the dissemination of information with attempts to engage players in particular attitudes and behaviors.

This volume offers a multifaceted reflection on persuasive gaming, that is, on the process of these particular games being played by players. The purpose is to better understand when and how digital games can be used for persuasion by further exploring persuasive games and some other kinds of persuasive playful interaction as well.

The book critically integrates what has been accomplished in separate research traditions to offer a multidisciplinary approach to understanding persuasive gaming that is closely linked to developments in the industry by including the exploration of relevant case studies.

• N/A

• Amazon

• Gaming, Gameplay, and Gamers, etc.
• Computer and Video Game Development and Programming
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Digital and Information Age

• Persuasive Gaming in Context (Teresa de la Hera, et al.)
• The Mirror Site (1) - PDF Files

• Videogames and Agency (Bettina Bódi)

  This book explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom, and how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles.

• Game Design Research (Petri Lankoski, et al)

  Design research is an active academic field covering disciplines such as architecture, graphic, product, service, interaction, and systems design. The book demonstrates different approaches to design research in game design research.

• This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (Jim Rossignol)

  A fascinating and eye-opening look into the real human impact of gaming culture. Traveling the globe and drawing anecdotes from many walks of life, it takes us beyond the media hype and into the lives of real people whose lives changed by gaming.

• Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution

  This revolutionary book is the first-ever academically worthy and deeply engaging critique of one of today's most popular forms of play: videogames are on track to supersede movies as the most innovative form of entertainment in the new century.

• Missions For Thoughtful Gamers (Andrew Cutting)

  Who am I? How do I live a good life? What is reality? Such perennial questions may seem remote from the pleasures of playing videogames for entertainment and fantasy. This book presents a sequence of 40 challenges for gamers.

• DOOM: SCARYDARKFAST (Dan Pinchbeck)

  This is a book about what is considered the most important first-person game ever made; about the blueprint that has defined one of the most successful genres of digital gaming. The author brings together the complete story of DOOM for the first time.

• Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming

  This book provides a fascinating examination of modding, tracing its evolution and detailing its impact on The Sims and the game industry as a whole. It shares insights into specific modifications and the cultural contexts from which they emerge.

• Possible Worlds in Video Games (Antonio Jose Planells de la Maza)

  This book proposes a model, inspired by the Semantics of Fiction and Possible Worlds, which is oriented to the analysis of video games as integrated systems. Contemporary video games should be read more like playable worlds than as interactive stories.

• Co-creating Videogames (John Banks)

  Drawing on a decade of research within the industry, it offers a rich description and analysis of the emerging participatory, co-creative relationships within the videogames industry, and valuable insight into the growing world of video games.

• Gamer Theory (McKenzie Wark)

  This book uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the highly imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.

• Designing Virtual Worlds (Richard A. Bartle)

  This book is the most comprehensive treatment of Virtual World design to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It brings a rich, well-developed approach to the design concepts behind virtual worlds.

• Game Programming Patterns (Robert Nystrom)

  This book brings the benefits of reusable design patterns to the world of game programming. It bridges from the ivory tower world of software architecture to the in-the-trenches reality of hardcore game programming.

• Game Programming (Penn Wu)

  This book is to help students to learn fundamental principles that apply to game programming regardless of the language they use to create the game, like gathering input from users, processing game data, and rendering game objects to the screen.