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1 online resource. "Introduces a practical critical method for analyzing existing games and designing future games"-- Part I. Why Do People Play Games? -- 1. You Are the One -- Tools to Think With -- Getting Started -- 2. Genre -- What Are Genres? -- What Are Genres For? -- Genre Maps -- Computer Game Genres -- A Theory of Computer Game Genres -- 3. Activity -- The Story of Activity Groups -- An Overview of Activity Profiles -- Three Driving Games -- Calculating Genres -- Tasks -- 4. Pleasure -- Aesthetics and Computer Games -- Spacewar -- Zork -- Pac-Man -- Comparative Aesthetics -- Tasks -- 5. Two Rail-Shooters -- Star Fox and Rez -- Activity Profiling and Genre Theory -- Applying Aesthetic Theory -- The Method of Game Analysis -- Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Rez, and Beyond -- 6. Why Don't People Play Games -- What Do We Mean by Games? -- Resident Evil -- Why Not Ask the Players? -- Emotional Models of Play -- Player Types -- Demographic Research -- Why Don't People Play Games? -- Conclusions -- Part II. What Is a Game? -- 7. Just an Ordinary Day -- The Glass Vial -- Unrealisms -- Perceptual Opportunities -- Sureties -- Surprises -- Attractors -- Connectors -- Rewards -- Getting It All Together in SinCity -- Perceptual Mapping in SinCity -- AS-OceanFloor -- 8. Big Bad Streets -- Driver School -- Sureties -- Surprises -- Driver and SinCity Comparisons -- 9. Time to Visit Yokosuka -- Shenmue -- Genre and Activity Profile -- Aesthetics -- Shenmue POs -- PSAS and Cut Scenes -- Interactive Storytelling? -- And On With General Aesthetics -- 10. Meaning What? -- Semiotics and Signs -- Pac-Man's Signs -- Icons, Indexes, and Symbols -- Denotation, Connotation, and Myth -- Syntagms and Paradigms -- Codes -- Making Up Pac-Man -- Filling Gaps -- 11. All Work and Play -- The Work of Meaning -- Signs of Interaction -- The Mechanics of Interaction -- The Inside-Out Code -- Where Is the Player? -- 12. Big Game Hunting -- Semiosphere -- The Code of Interaction -- The Myth of Interaction -- What Is a Game? -- How Do You Get Out of Here? -- Big Game Hunting -- Glossary -- List of Games -- Bibliography -- Index. Clive Fencott [and others]. Includes bibliographical references and index. Computer games Computer games Design Video games Video games Design COMPUTERS Programming Games Computer games Computer games Design Video games Video games Design COMPUTERS Programming Games GV1469.3 794.8 COM012040 Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012 (DLC) 2012002566 9781118347577 1118347579 9781118347553 1118347552 9781118347560 1118347560 9781118347584 1118347587 2012007308 10.1002/9781118347584 Wiley InterScience 16F04518-2A60-48E2-A886-B3831F7FDC6A OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118347584 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118347584 DLC 120217 20171115104658.0 ocn777364386 eng