Alternate reality games and the cusp of digital gameplay / edited by Antero Garcia and Greg Niemeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garcia, Antero, editor.

Niemeyer, Greg, editor.

Series:

Approaches to digital game studies ; Volume 5.

Approaches to digital game studies ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Shared virtual environments.

Game-based learning.

Physical Description:

viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

Contents:

From alternate to alternative reality : games as cultural probes / Patrick Jagoda, Melissa Gilliam, Peter McDonald, and Ashlyn Sparrow

The game did not take place : this is not a game and blurring the lines of fiction / Alan Hook

Alternate reality games for learning : a frame by frame analysis / Anthony Pellicone, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Kathryn Kaczmarek, Kari Kraus, June Ahn, & Derek Hansen

Promotional alternate reality games and the TINAG philosophy / Stephanie Janes

The coachella disaster : how the puppet masters of art of the h3ist pulled a victory from the jaws of defeat / Burcu S. Bakiolu

Designing and playing peer-produced ARGs in the primary classroom : supporting literacies through play / Angela Colvert

Games beyond the arg / Jeff Watson

Methods : studying alternate reality games as virtual worlds / Calvin Johns

A typology to describe alternate reality games for cultural contexts / Diane Dufort and Federico Tajariol

Sociability by design in an alternate reality game : the case of the Trail / Roinioti Elina, Pandia Eleana, Skarpelos Yannis

Ingress : a restructuring of the ARG or a new genre? : an ethnography of enlightened and resistance factions in Brazil / Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Alternate reality games and the cusp of digital gameplay

ISBN:

9781501316241

1501316249

OCLC:

962830648