Critical play : radical game design / Mary Flanagan.

By:

Flanagan, Mary, 1969-

Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009.Description: vii, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0262062682
9780262062688

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

GV1230 .F53 2009

Contents:

Introduction to critical play -- Playing house -- Board games -- Language games -- Performative games and objects -- Artists' locative games -- Critical computer games -- Designing for critical play.

Summary: Mary Flanagan examines alternative games--games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry--and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture.--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-317) and index.

Introduction to critical play -- Playing house -- Board games -- Language games -- Performative games and objects -- Artists' locative games -- Critical computer games -- Designing for critical play.

Mary Flanagan examines alternative games--games that challenge the accepted norms embedded within the gaming industry--and argues that games designed by artists and activists are reshaping everyday game culture.--Publisher's description.

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