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The Aesthetic of Play
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- Artist
- Upton, Brian
- ISBN
- 0262542633
- Book Title
- Aesthetic of Play
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Item Length
- 10.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Computers, Games & Activities, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
- Topic
- Programming / Games, Media Studies, General, Video & Electronic
- Item Weight
- 16.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a critical language for thinking about play. Game designers are better at answering small questions ("Why is this battle boring?") than big ones ("What does this game mean?"). In this book, the game designer Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play--how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, Upton develops a framework for understanding play, introducing a set of critical tools that can help us analyze games and game designs and identify ways in which they succeed or fail.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262542633
ISBN-13
9780262542630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10050031761
Product Key Features
Book Title
Aesthetic of Play
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Programming / Games, Media Studies, General, Video & Electronic
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Computers, Games & Activities, Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
16.1 Oz
Item Length
10.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Lccn
2014-029658
Dewey Decimal
793.01
Lc Classification Number
Gv1201.37.U77 2021
Table of Content
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 I Games 1 Defining Play 9 2 Interactivity 23 3 Play Spaces 39 4 Heuristics 51 5 Anticipation 73 6 Mastery 93 II Minds 7 Understanding 117 8 Epistemology 127 9 Neurons 145 10 Signs 161 III Stories 11 Playing without Winning 183 12 Performance 199 13 Narrative Play 215 14 Narrative Structure 237 15 Play and Meaning 259 16 Critical Play 283 Bibliography 307 Index 319
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