Beschreibung
ZHdK: Institut für Designforschung (IDE)
![Games and Rules | Beat Suter, Mela Kocher, René Bauer (eds.) [E-Book PDF]](https://publikationen.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/9783837643046yYphQWKAyKHAl_600x600.jpg)
Games and Rules | Beat Suter, Mela Kocher, René Bauer (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
Game Mechanics for the «Magic Circle»
Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of «Games and Rules» take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish motivations in a dedicated space, a «Magic Circle», whereas game mechanics are constructs of rules designed for interactions that provide gameplay. Those rules form the base for all the excitement and frustration we experience in games. This anthology contains individual essays by experts and authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world – among them Miguel Sicart and Carlo Fabricatore.
322 Seiten (PDF), transcript, 2018
ISBN 978-3-8394-4304-0
Ähnliche Produkte
-
Narrative Mechanics. Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life | Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher (eds.)
CHF 51.50Bei CeDe kaufen
Narrative Mechanics. Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life | Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher (eds.)
CHF 51.50What do stories in games have in common with political narratives?
This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society – such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design – of game mechanics.
362 Seiten, transcript, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5345-8Quick View -
![Swiss Graphic Design Histories | Sarah Owens et al. (eds.) [E-Book PDF]](https://publikationen.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Swiss-Graphic-Desihn-Histories-324x448.jpg)
Swiss Graphic Design Histories | Sarah Owens et al. (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
Open Access
Swiss Graphic Design Histories | Sarah Owens et al. (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
Swiss Graphic Design Histories offers an entirely new redefinition of Switzerland’s graphic design landscape. Based on extensive research by scholars of design history and with a multiple and inclusive approach, it reaches beyond the usual canon and the well-known epicenters Basel and Zurich with the Germanophone fathers of what has become famous as the Swiss Style in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Edited by Davide Fornari, Robert Lzicar, Sarah Owens, Michael Renner, Arne Scheuermann and Peter J. Schneemann.
Named one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2021.
814 pages in 4 volumes, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-85881-868-3Quick View -
Design Struggles. Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives | Claudia Mareis, Nina Paim (eds.)
CHF 47.90Bei CeDe kaufen
Design Struggles. Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives | Claudia Mareis, Nina Paim (eds.)
CHF 47.90Design Struggles critically assesses the ways in which the design field is involved in creating, perpetuating, promoting and reinforcing injustice and inequality in social, political, economic, cultural and ecological systems. This book shows how this entanglement arose from Eurocentric and neoliberal thinking. The voices and practices represented here propose to question and disrupt the discipline of design from within, by problematizing the very notions of design. They aim to do so by generating new, anti-racist, post-capitalist, queer-feminist, environmentally conscious and community-based ideas on how to transform design. In this way, Design Struggles strives to forge sustainable, new practices within the design field that challenge the status quo and amplify underrepresented voices, both in the world of design, as well as beyond.
448 pages, valiz, 2021
ISBN: 978-94-92095-88-6Quick View
![Games and Rules | Beat Suter, Mela Kocher, René Bauer (eds.) [E-Book PDF]](https://publikationen.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/9783837643046yYphQWKAyKHAl_600x600-324x486.jpg)