Rerolling boardgames : essays on themes, systems, experiences and ideologies / edited by Douglas Brown and Esther MacCallum-Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Douglas, 1983- editor.

MacCallum-Stewart, Esther, editor.

Series:

Studies in gaming.

Studies in gaming

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Board games--Design and construction.

Board games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages).

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

"Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames-from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles-have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Douglas Brown and Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Playing for time / Paul Booth

Collaborative games redux : new lessons from the past 10 years / José P. Zagal

Twilight struggle, or, How we stopped worrying about the hexagons / Giaime Alonge and Riccardo Fassone

Materially mediated : boardgames as interactive media and mediated communication / Joe A. Wasserman

More than the sum of their bits : understanding the gameboard and components / Melissa J. Rogerson, Martin Gibbs and Wally Smith

A mixed blessing? : exploring the use of computers to augment and mediate boardgames/ Karl Bergström and Staffan Björk

Gamifying salvation : Gyan Chaupar variants as representations of (re)births and lives / Souvik Mukherjee

Guilt trips for the cardboard colonialists : the function of procedural rhetoric and the contact zone in Archipelago / Dean Bowman

Playing games, splitting selves / C. Thi Nguyen

Narrative machines : a ludological approach to narrative design / Malcolm Ryan, Robin Dixon and Esther MacCallum-Stewart

Designing analog learning games : genre affordances, limitations and multi-game approaches / Owen Gottlieb and Ian Schreiber.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781476639277

1476639272