Life Is a Game: What Game Design Says about the Human Condition, Edward Castronova
Автор: Edward Castronova Название: Life Is a Game: What Game Design Says about the Human Condition ISBN: 1501360612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501360619 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
What if life is a game? Are you winning? Have you even decided what 'winning' is?
Game design could be defined in many ways, but here the term is used to denote the practice of creating choices. Designing a game, in this sense, involves crafting limits, rewards, incentives, and risks in such a way that the person who interacts with the game - the player - makes choices that have consequences. Edward Castronova urges readers to think about the fundamentals of the human condition and compare them to different games that we all know. In some ways, life is like an idle game: providing unchallenging distractions that fit easily into a person's daily routine. In other ways, life is like the game Minesweeper: You poke in different places to learn about what you don't know, taking care to avoid big explosions. Or, life is like a role-playing game: You adopt a persona and speak your part, always seeking adventure. Bringing together questions relating to diverse fields - such as politics, economics, sociology and philosophy - Castronova persuades readers to broaden the scope of game design to answer questions about life's everyday obstacles. The object of this book is to take seriously the idea that life is a game. The goal is not to make readers wealthier or healthier. Its goal is to go on a journey into the human condition, with game design as a guide.
Автор: Rogers, Rogers Scott Название: Level Up! the Guide to Great Video Game Design ISBN: 1118877160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118877166 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides examples that forgo theoretical gobbledygook with charmingly illustrated concepts and solutions based on years of professional experience. This book helps you teach how to develop marketable ideas, and learn what perils and pitfalls await during a game`s pre-production, production and post-production stages.
Автор: Sellers Michael Название: Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach ISBN: 0134667603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780134667607 Издательство: Pearson Education Рейтинг: Цена: 8222.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Advanced Game Design, pioneering game designer and instructor Michael Sellers situates game design practices in a strong theoretical framework of systems thinking, enabling designers to think more deeply and clearly about their work, so they can produce better, more engaging games for any device or platform. Sellers offers a deep unifying framework in which practical game design best practices and proven systems thinking theory reinforce each other, helping game designers understand what they are trying to accomplish and the best ways to achieve it. Drawing on 20+ years of experience designing games, launching game studios, and teaching game design, Sellers explains: What games are, and how systems thinking can help you think about them more clearly How to systematically promote engagement, interactivity, and fun What you can learn from MDA and other game design frameworks How to create gameplay and core loops How to design the entire player experience, and how to build game mechanics that work together to create that experience How to capture your game's "big idea" and Unique Selling Proposition How to establish high-level and background design and translate it into detailed design How to build, playtest, and iterate early prototypes How to build your game design career in a field that keeps changing at breakneck speed
Описание: This monograph focuses on exploring game theoretic modeling and mechanism design for problem solving in Internet and network economics. For the first time, the main theoretical issues and applications of mechanism design are bound together in a single text.
Автор: Kalmpourtzis Название: Educational Game Design Fundamental ISBN: 113863154X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138631540 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book refers to educators and designers of all sorts: from kindergarten to lifelong learning, from corporate training to museum curators and from tabletop or video game designers to theme park creators!
Автор: Tanya X. Short (Editor) Название: Procedural Storytelling in Game Design ISBN: 1138595306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138595309 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thoroughly updated collection of chapters covering procedural generation in video game development where the games themselves create their play areas, objects and stories based on a set of rules, rather than relying on the developer to handcraft each element individually. Examines content and system creation.
Описание: Building Blocks is an encyclopedia of hundreds of different mechanisms, organized by category. Each mechanism includes a description of how it works, a discussion of its pros and cons, how it can be used, and examples of specific games that use it. Excellent for new designs, inspiration, or when trying to solve a problem in the midst of a design.
Автор: Fullerton, Tracy (university Of Southern Californi Название: Game design workshop ISBN: 1138098809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138098800 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 21437.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Discover an exercise-driven, non-technical approach to game design, without the need for programming or artistic expertise with Game Design Workshop, Fourth Edition.
Описание: It is impossible to understand modern economics without knowledge of the basic tools of gametheory and mechanism design. This book provides a graduate-level introduction to the economic modeling of strategic behavior. The goal is to teach Economics doctoral students the tools of game theory and mechanism design that all economists should know.
Автор: Freyermuth Gundolf S. Название: Games - Game Design - Game Studies: An Introduction ISBN: 383762983X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837629835 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did games rise to become the central audio-visual form of expression and storytelling in digital culture? How did the practices of their artistic production come into being? How did the academic analysis of the new mediums social effects and cultural meaning develop? Addressing these fundamental questions and aspects of digital game culture in a holistic way for the first time, Gundolf S Freyermuths introduction outlines the media-historical development phases of analogue and digital games, the history and artistic practices of game design, as well as the history, academic approaches, and most important research topics of game studies.
Автор: Bree Название: Game Based Organization Design ISBN: 1137351470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137351470 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is a widening gap between the current organizational reality and the tools and methods available to managers for addressing its challenges. Game Based Organization Design shows that one of the ways to bridge this gap is to introduce insights and approaches from video game design into the design of organizational systems.
Название: Game Theory and Mechanism Design ISBN: 9814525049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814525046 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 26928.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a self-sufficient treatment of a key tool, game theory and mechanism design, to model, analyze, and solve centralized as well as decentralized design problems involving multiple autonomous agents that interact strategically in a rational and intelligent way. The contents of the book provide a sound foundation of game theory and mechanism design theory which clearly represent the “science” behind traditional as well as emerging economic applications for the society.The importance of the discipline of game theory has been recognized through numerous Nobel prizes in economic sciences being awarded to game theorists, including the 2005, 2007, and 2012 prizes. The book distills the marvelous contributions of these and other celebrated game theorists and presents it in a way that can be easily understood even by senior undergraduate students.A unique feature of the book is its detailed coverage of mechanism design which is the art of designing a game among strategic agents so that a social goal is realized in an equilibrium of the induced game. Another feature is a large number of illustrative examples that are representative of both classical and modern applications of game theory and mechanism design. The book also includes informative biographical sketches of game theory legends, and is specially customized to a general engineering audience.After a thorough reading of this book, readers would be able to apply game theory and mechanism design in a principled and mature way to solve relevant problems in computer science (esp, artificial intelligence/machine learning), computer engineering, operations research, industrial engineering and microeconomics.
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