Uncertainty in games / Greg Costikyan.
In this book Costikyan argues that games require uncertainty to hold our interest, and that the struggle to master uncertainty is central to their appeal. Game designers, he suggests, can harness the idea of uncertainty to guide their work. He explores the many sources of uncertainty in many sorts o...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Playful thinking (Cambridge, Mass)
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Table of Contents:
- Series foreword
- Introduction
- Games and culture
- Uncertainty
- Analyzing games
- Sources of uncertainty
- Game design considerations
- Conclusion.