Gaming the system : designing with Gamestar mechanic / Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Melissa Gresalfi, Kylie Peppler, and Rafi Santo.

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Tekinbaş, Katie Salen [author.]

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TextSeries: Interconnections: understanding systems through digital design | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learningPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 266 pages : color illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780262319959
0262319950
0262319969
9780262319966

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gaming the systemDDC classification:

794.8/1536 23

LOC classification:

QA76.76.C672

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Contents:

Series Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgments and Project History; Systems Thinking Concepts in This Book Collection; Alignment to Common Core State Standards; Next Generation Science Standards; Introduction; Toolkit; Design Challenges Overview; Design Challenge 1; Design Challenge 2; Design Challenge 3; Design Challenge 4; Design Challenge 5; Design Challenge 6; Delving Deeper Into Systems Thinking; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; References; Index

Summary: Understanding games as systems, with complex interactions of game elements and rules. Gaming the System demonstrates the nature of games as systems, how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, and how to identify systems concepts in the design process. The activities use Gamestar Mechanic, an online game design environment with a systems thinking focus.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Understanding games as systems, with complex interactions of game elements and rules. Gaming the System demonstrates the nature of games as systems, how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, and how to identify systems concepts in the design process. The activities use Gamestar Mechanic, an online game design environment with a systems thinking focus.

English.

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