The Aesthetic of Play

Brian Upton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2021
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-54263-0 (ISBN)

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The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a critical language for thinking about play. Game designers are better at answering small questions ("Why is this battle boring?") than big ones ("What does this game mean?"). In this book, the game designer Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play--how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, Upton develops a framework for understanding play, introducing a set of critical tools that can help us analyze games and game designs and identify ways in which they succeed or fail.

Brian Upton cofounded Red Storm Entertainment, where he was lead designer of the popular games Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon. He is now a "script doctor for games" at Sony's Santa Monica Studio.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2021
Zusatzinfo	56 black and white illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-262-54263-3 / 0262542633
ISBN-13	978-0-262-54263-0 / 9780262542630
Zustand	Neuware