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Critical play : radical game design / Mary Flanagan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009Description: vii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262518659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 794.81536 FL.C 2009 23
Contents:
Introduction to critical play -- Playing house -- Board games -- Language games -- Performative games and objects -- Artists' locative games -- Critical computer games -- Designing for critical play.
Summary: Mary Flanagan examines alternative games--games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry--and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture.--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-317) and index.

Introduction to critical play -- Playing house -- Board games -- Language games -- Performative games and objects -- Artists' locative games -- Critical computer games -- Designing for critical play.

Mary Flanagan examines alternative games--games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry--and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture.--Publisher's description.

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