Gaming

Thế giới gaming rung động với năng lượng sáng tạo, từ những nguyên tắc thiết kế đột phá đến tâm lý học chơi game và nghệ thuật tạo ra những trải nghiệm khó quên cho người chơi. Bộ sưu tập gaming của chúng tôi trang bị cho độc giả những hiểu biết chuyên sâu về phát triển game, lý thuyết thiết kế và sức mạnh biến đổi của giải trí tương tác.

Gaming Tóm tắt sách

Arthas

của Christie Golden

To protect his people from undeath, a prince becomes the very monster he swore to destroy.

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🖤 Corruption Arc 💀 Tragic Villain Origin 🗡️ Cursed Blade 🧟 Undead Plague 💔 Doomed Romance

Chuyên sâu

Arthas

To protect his people from undeath, a prince becomes the very monster he swore to destroy.

của Christie Golden 2009 320 trang

4.14

12.000+ đánh giá

🖤 Corruption Arc 💀 Tragic Villain Origin 🗡️ Cursed Blade 🧟 Undead Plague 💔 Doomed Romance

Level Up!

của Scott Rogers • 2010

A designer's toolbox: how to build games that players love, one rule at a time.

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🎮 Game Design 🗺️ Level Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🕹️ Game UX 🧩 Behavioral Design

Chuyên sâu

Level Up!

A designer's toolbox: how to build games that players love, one rule at a time.

của Scott Rogers 2010 514 trang

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🎮 Game Design 🗺️ Level Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🕹️ Game UX 🧩 Behavioral Design

The Art of Game Design

của Jesse Schell • 2008

Players feel your work, they don't read it. A hundred ways to design what they feel.

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🌊 Flow Theory 🌍 World-Building

The Art of Game Design

Players feel your work, they don't read it. A hundred ways to design what they feel.

của Jesse Schell 2008 520 trang

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🌊 Flow Theory 🌍 World-Building

Từ vựng thiết kế trò chơi

của Anna Anthropy • 2013

The grammar of game design: how to script a back-and-forth that players lose themselves in.

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📗 Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Game Systems 🧠 Player Experience 📖 Emergent Narrative

Từ vựng thiết kế trò chơi

The grammar of game design: how to script a back-and-forth that players lose themselves in.

của Anna Anthropy 2013 211 trang

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134 đánh giá

📗 Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Game Systems 🧠 Player Experience 📖 Emergent Narrative

Game Design Workshop

của Tracy Fullerton • 2008

The prototyping-first method that catches design disasters before you write a single line of code.

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🎮 Game Design 📐 Rapid Prototyping 🔄 Iterative Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🌱 Emergent Gameplay

Game Design Workshop

The prototyping-first method that catches design disasters before you write a single line of code.

của Tracy Fullerton 2008 496 trang

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🎮 Game Design 📐 Rapid Prototyping 🔄 Iterative Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🌱 Emergent Gameplay

A Theory Of Fun For Game Design

của Ralph Koster • 2004

Games tap into your brain's learning circuits. The rush of fun is the moment something clicks.

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🎮 Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Learning Through Games ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Player Psychology

A Theory Of Fun For Game Design

Games tap into your brain's learning circuits. The rush of fun is the moment something clicks.

của Ralph Koster 2004 279 trang

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🎮 Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Learning Through Games ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Player Psychology

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

của James Paul Gee • 2003

Video games teach because they have to. The 36 learning principles schools can steal from them.

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🎮 Game-Based Learning 🧠 Learning Science 📍 Situated Cognition 👁️ Multimodal Learning 🔄 Learning Through Failure

What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Video games teach because they have to. The 36 learning principles schools can steal from them.

của James Paul Gee 2003 240 trang

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🎮 Game-Based Learning 🧠 Learning Science 📍 Situated Cognition 👁️ Multimodal Learning 🔄 Learning Through Failure

Reality Is Broken

của Jane McGonigal • 2010

Games satisfy us more than reality does. That gap is a blueprint for a better world.

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🎮 Game Design 🕹️ Gamification 🌞 Positive Psychology 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🌊 Flow Psychology

Reality Is Broken

Games satisfy us more than reality does. That gap is a blueprint for a better world.

của Jane McGonigal 2010 400 trang

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🎮 Game Design 🕹️ Gamification 🌞 Positive Psychology 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🌊 Flow Psychology

Getting Gamers

của Jamie Madigan • 2015

The psychology that turns play into obsession, strangers into teammates, and pixels into identity.

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🎮 Gaming Psychology 🧠 Behavioral Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🌐 Online Communities 🪪 Social Identity

Getting Gamers

The psychology that turns play into obsession, strangers into teammates, and pixels into identity.

của Jamie Madigan 2015 299 trang

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🎮 Gaming Psychology 🧠 Behavioral Psychology 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🌐 Online Communities 🪪 Social Identity

Console Wars

của Blake J. Harris • 2014

A toy exec and a blue hedgehog briefly unseated Nintendo. The real fight was inside the company.

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🎮 Video Game Industry ⚔️ Business Rivalries 🥊 Corporate Infighting 📢 Disruptive Marketing 🐱 Brand Mascots

Console Wars

A toy exec and a blue hedgehog briefly unseated Nintendo. The real fight was inside the company.

của Blake J. Harris 2014 576 trang

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🎮 Video Game Industry ⚔️ Business Rivalries 🥊 Corporate Infighting 📢 Disruptive Marketing 🐱 Brand Mascots

Designing Games

của Tynan Sylvester • 2013

Build games as emotion machines: a systems guide to rules, choices, and difficulty.

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🔗 Systems Thinking 📖 Narrative Design

Designing Games

Build games as emotion machines: a systems guide to rules, choices, and difficulty.

của Tynan Sylvester 2013 413 trang

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🎮 Game Design 🧠 Player Psychology 🔄 Iterative Design 🔗 Systems Thinking 📖 Narrative Design

Video Game Storytelling

của Evan Skolnick • 2014

Screenwriting's classic tools applied to games, so story and gameplay pull the same direction.

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🎮 Game Writing 📖 Interactive Storytelling 📐 Story Structure 🧑 Character Arcs 🏛️ Mythic Structure

Video Game Storytelling

Screenwriting's classic tools applied to games, so story and gameplay pull the same direction.

của Evan Skolnick 2014 208 trang

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🎮 Game Writing 📖 Interactive Storytelling 📐 Story Structure 🧑 Character Arcs 🏛️ Mythic Structure

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

của Jason Schreier • 2017

Behind the scenes of Destiny, Diablo, and Stardew Valley: chaos, crunch, and last-minute saves.

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🎮 Video Game Development 🎬 Behind The Scenes 📰 Tech Journalism 🎨 Creative Process 🛠️ Labor Practices

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

Behind the scenes of Destiny, Diablo, and Stardew Valley: chaos, crunch, and last-minute saves.

của Jason Schreier 2017 278 trang

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24.000+ đánh giá

🎮 Video Game Development 🎬 Behind The Scenes 📰 Tech Journalism 🎨 Creative Process 🛠️ Labor Practices

Persuasive Games

của Ian Bogost • 2007

A videogame's rules are arguments. Learning to read them changes how you see every screen.

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🎮 Game Studies 📺 Media Theory 📜 Rhetorical Theory 🎲 Game Design Theory 📱 Digital Media Criticism

Persuasive Games

A videogame's rules are arguments. Learning to read them changes how you see every screen.

của Ian Bogost 2007 450 trang

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360 đánh giá

🎮 Game Studies 📺 Media Theory 📜 Rhetorical Theory 🎲 Game Design Theory 📱 Digital Media Criticism

How to Reassess Your Chess

của Jeremy Silman • 1993

Find the hidden imbalance, build a plan around it, and stop playing aimless moves.

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♟️ Chess Strategy 📍 Positional Chess 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🧮 Tactical Calculation 🧱 Pawn Structures

How to Reassess Your Chess

Find the hidden imbalance, build a plan around it, and stop playing aimless moves.

của Jeremy Silman 1993 402 trang

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♟️ Chess Strategy 📍 Positional Chess 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🧮 Tactical Calculation 🧱 Pawn Structures

Silent Hill

của Bernard Perron • 2006

Fog, radio static, broken controls: Silent Hill made your own mind the real horror.

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🎮 Survival Horror Games 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Psychological Horror 👹 Monster Symbolism 🔊 Game Sound Design

Silent Hill

Fog, radio static, broken controls: Silent Hill made your own mind the real horror.

của Bernard Perron 2006 172 trang

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253 đánh giá

🎮 Survival Horror Games 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Psychological Horror 👹 Monster Symbolism 🔊 Game Sound Design

Moral Combat

của Patrick M. Markey • 2017

Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.

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😱 Media Moral Panics 🎮 Video Game Studies 🔫 Violence And Media 🧠 Gaming Benefits 👴 Generational Divides

Moral Combat

Crime fell as gaming rose. The evidence never held, and the outrage is a recycled panic.

của Patrick M. Markey 2017 256 trang

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😱 Media Moral Panics 🎮 Video Game Studies 🔫 Violence And Media 🧠 Gaming Benefits 👴 Generational Divides

One Up

của Joost van Dreunen • 2020

Three transformations in four decades, and each one rewarded strategy over creative genius.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏗️ Platform Economics 📡 Digital Disruption 🎨 Creative Industries 👾 Game Developers

One Up

Three transformations in four decades, and each one rewarded strategy over creative genius.

của Joost van Dreunen 2020 296 trang

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213 đánh giá

🎮 Video Game Industry 🏗️ Platform Economics 📡 Digital Disruption 🎨 Creative Industries 👾 Game Developers

The Infernal City

của Greg Keyes • 2009

A floating city devours souls. Its newest kitchen recruit: an alchemist who refuses to serve.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🏙️ Floating City 🖤 Soul Magic 📖 Dual Narrative ⚗️ Alchemy

The Infernal City

A floating city devours souls. Its newest kitchen recruit: an alchemist who refuses to serve.

của Greg Keyes 2009 288 trang

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🏙️ Floating City 🖤 Soul Magic 📖 Dual Narrative ⚗️ Alchemy

Think Like a Game Designer

của Justin Gary • 2018

A repeatable design loop that turns raw ideas into tested, publishable games, no genius required.

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🎮 Game Design 🎨 Creative Industries 💡 Design Thinking 🔧 Rapid Prototyping 🧠 Player Psychology

Think Like a Game Designer

A repeatable design loop that turns raw ideas into tested, publishable games, no genius required.

của Justin Gary 2018 230 trang

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🎮 Game Design 🎨 Creative Industries 💡 Design Thinking 🔧 Rapid Prototyping 🧠 Player Psychology

Minecraft

của Max Brooks • 2017

A castaway with no memory battles monsters and mines the secrets of a block-shaped island.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In ⛏️ Survival Crafting 🔲 Block World 🏝️ Deserted Island ❓ Amnesiac Protagonist

Minecraft

A castaway with no memory battles monsters and mines the secrets of a block-shaped island.

của Max Brooks 2017 288 trang

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In ⛏️ Survival Crafting 🔲 Block World 🏝️ Deserted Island ❓ Amnesiac Protagonist

Dungeon Master's Guide

của Wizards of the Coast • 2014

Dead parents in a locked apartment. Four prodigy children. Each had a reason to want them gone.

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🔐 Locked Room Mystery 🔒 Family Secrets 💊 Experimental Drugs 😶 Emotional Numbness 🔍 Sibling Investigators

Dungeon Master's Guide

Dead parents in a locked apartment. Four prodigy children. Each had a reason to want them gone.

của Wizards of the Coast 2014 320 trang

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🔐 Locked Room Mystery 🔒 Family Secrets 💊 Experimental Drugs 😶 Emotional Numbness 🔍 Sibling Investigators

Monster Manual

của Wizards of the Coast • 2014

The bestiary your campaign needs: monster tactics, lore, and stats, ready to drop into any session.

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📖 Monster Compendiums 🎲 Tabletop Rpgs 🧰 Game Master Tools ⚔️ Encounter Design 🕳️ Dungeon Crawling

Monster Manual

The bestiary your campaign needs: monster tactics, lore, and stats, ready to drop into any session.

của Wizards of the Coast 2014 352 trang

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📖 Monster Compendiums 🎲 Tabletop Rpgs 🧰 Game Master Tools ⚔️ Encounter Design 🕳️ Dungeon Crawling

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

của Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner • 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

của Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner 2020 265 trang

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

Play Nice

của Jason Schreier • 2024

$80 million and seven years for a game that never shipped: the unraveling of Blizzard Entertainment.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 💻 Tech Company Histories ⏰ Crunch Culture ⚠️ Workplace Misconduct

Play Nice

$80 million and seven years for a game that never shipped: the unraveling of Blizzard Entertainment.

của Jason Schreier 2024 384 trang

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🏢 Corporate Culture 💻 Tech Company Histories ⏰ Crunch Culture ⚠️ Workplace Misconduct

Player's Handbook

của Wizards of the Coast • 2014

Build your hero, learn the spells, master the fights. The rulebook behind every tabletop adventure.

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🎭 Character Creation 🐉 Fantasy Roleplaying ⚔️ Tactical Combat 🎲 Game Mechanics 🤝 Party Dynamics

Player's Handbook

Build your hero, learn the spells, master the fights. The rulebook behind every tabletop adventure.

của Wizards of the Coast 2014 320 trang

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🎭 Character Creation 🐉 Fantasy Roleplaying ⚔️ Tactical Combat 🎲 Game Mechanics 🤝 Party Dynamics

Game Mechanics

của Ernest Adams • 2012

Visualize your game's economy, simulate rival strategies, and nail the balance before you ship.

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🕹️ Game Systems Design 📊 Internal Economies 🏗️ Design Patterns 🌊 Emergent Gameplay ⚖️ Game Balance

Game Mechanics

Visualize your game's economy, simulate rival strategies, and nail the balance before you ship.

của Ernest Adams 2012 353 trang

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185 đánh giá

🕹️ Game Systems Design 📊 Internal Economies 🏗️ Design Patterns 🌊 Emergent Gameplay ⚖️ Game Balance

Everybody Wins

của James Wallis • 2022

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

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🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Everybody Wins

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

của James Wallis 2022 443 trang

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219 đánh giá

🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Shadow of the Xel'Naga

của Gabriel Mesta • 2001

An alien artifact awakens on a remote colony, and three warring species converge to claim it.

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🪖 Military Sf 🛸 Alien Artifact 👩‍🚀 Reluctant Leader 🌾 Colonist Survival

Shadow of the Xel'Naga

An alien artifact awakens on a remote colony, and three warring species converge to claim it.

của Gabriel Mesta 2001 272 trang

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🎮 Video Game Tie-In 🪖 Military Sf 🛸 Alien Artifact 👩‍🚀 Reluctant Leader 🌾 Colonist Survival

Press Reset

của Jason Schreier • 2021

Why game developers lose their jobs after shipping hit games, and who profits.

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🛠️ Tech Labor ⏰ Crunch Culture 📉 Job Precarity 🎭 Art Vs Commerce

Press Reset

Why game developers lose their jobs after shipping hit games, and who profits.

của Jason Schreier 2021 301 trang

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🎮 Video Game Industry 🛠️ Tech Labor ⏰ Crunch Culture 📉 Job Precarity 🎭 Art Vs Commerce

Minecraft

của Mojang AB • 2017

A retiring adventurer hands you his illustrated field notes on every creature in Minecraft.

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🎮 Video Game Bestiary 🗺️ Fictional Field Guide 📓 Explorer's Journal 📖 Creature Compendium ⛏️ Minecraft Universe

Minecraft

A retiring adventurer hands you his illustrated field notes on every creature in Minecraft.

của Mojang AB 2017 104 trang

4.56

387 đánh giá

🎮 Video Game Bestiary 🗺️ Fictional Field Guide 📓 Explorer's Journal 📖 Creature Compendium ⛏️ Minecraft Universe

Eurogames

của Stewart Woods • 2012

Postwar Germany rejected war games and invented a genre where elegance matters more than conquest.

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🎓 Game Studies 🎲 Board Game Culture 📐 Game Design Theory 🧠 Player Psychology 📜 Game History

Eurogames

Postwar Germany rejected war games and invented a genre where elegance matters more than conquest.

của Stewart Woods 2012 262 trang

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137 đánh giá

🎓 Game Studies 🎲 Board Game Culture 📐 Game Design Theory 🧠 Player Psychology 📜 Game History

It's All a Game

của Tristan Donovan • 2017

The board games in your closet once trained generals, hid spies, and taught machines to think.

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🎲 Board Game History 🔍 Cultural History 🎨 Game Design 🏺 Material Culture 🔬 Microhistory

It's All a Game

The board games in your closet once trained generals, hid spies, and taught machines to think.

của Tristan Donovan 2017 304 trang

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🎲 Board Game History 🔍 Cultural History 🎨 Game Design 🏺 Material Culture 🔬 Microhistory

Lost in a Good Game

của Pete Etchells • 2019

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

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🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Lost in a Good Game

The research that clears video games of harm, and the surprising ways they improve our lives.

của Pete Etchells 2019 320 trang

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🎮 Video Game Psychology ⏳ Screen Time Research 🌐 Digital Culture 🧩 Gaming Motivation 🧠 Gaming And Cognition

Unboxed

của Gordon Calleja • 2022

Board games succeed or fail on six forms of involvement. Most designers only account for one.

3.46

🎲 Board Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Play Theory 📖 Analog Revival 🔍 Phenomenology

Unboxed

Board games succeed or fail on six forms of involvement. Most designers only account for one.

của Gordon Calleja 2022 312 trang

3.46

13 đánh giá

🎲 Board Game Design 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Play Theory 📖 Analog Revival 🔍 Phenomenology

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

của Mike Selinker • 2011

Designing a board game is designing an emotion. The craft of mechanics, pacing, and playtesting.

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🎲 Board Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🔬 Playtesting 🧠 Player Psychology 🛠️ Prototyping

The Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

Designing a board game is designing an emotion. The craft of mechanics, pacing, and playtesting.

của Mike Selinker 2011 138 trang

4.06

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🎲 Board Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🔬 Playtesting 🧠 Player Psychology 🛠️ Prototyping

The Invisible Game

của Zoltan Andrejkovics • 2016

Your team grinds mechanics all day and still cracks under pressure. The missing half is trainable.

4.33

228

🧠 Sports Psychology 🤝 Team Dynamics 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🌊 Flow States 🫀 Emotional Regulation

The Invisible Game

Your team grinds mechanics all day and still cracks under pressure. The missing half is trainable.

của Zoltan Andrejkovics 2016 201 trang

4.33

228 đánh giá

🧠 Sports Psychology 🤝 Team Dynamics 🎯 Deliberate Practice 🌊 Flow States 🫀 Emotional Regulation

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