Games and Rules: Game Mechanics for the »Magic Circle«
Beat Suter · Mela Kocher · René Bauer
Mar 2019 · Edition Medienwissenschaft Book 53 · transcript Verlag
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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.
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Mela Kocher (Dr.) ist Projektleiterin für ludische Didaktik des Bereichs E-Learning im Dossier Learning & Teaching und lehrt im Masterstudiengang der Fachrichtung Game Design an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
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