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):

Game-based learning.

Shared virtual environments.

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as "real." Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is the first collection to explore and define the possibilities of ARGs. Though prominent examples have existed for more than two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the distinction between real and fictional. With ARGs continuing to be an important and blurred space between digital and physical gameplay, this volume offers clear analysis of game design, implementation, and ramifications for game studies. Divided into three distinct sections, the contributions include first hand accounts by leading ARG creators, scholarly analysis of the meaning behind ARGs, and explorations of how ARGs are extending digital tools for analysis. By balancing the voices of designers, players, and researchers, this collection highlights how the Alternate Reality Game genre is transforming the ways we play and interact today

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.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781501316272

1501316273

9781501316258

1501316257

9781501316265

1501316265

OCLC:

971615748