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Experimental Games - Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification (Paperback)
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Experimental Games - Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification (Paperback)
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In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy
an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games
alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020,
and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role playing,
escape rooms, and puzzles, command an ever-expanding audience. At
the same time, "gamification"-the application of game mechanics to
traditionally nongame spheres, such as personal health and fitness,
shopping, habit tracking, and more-has imposed unprecedented levels
of competition, repetition, and quantification on daily life.
Drawing from his own experience as a game designer, Patrick Jagoda
argues that games need not be synonymous with gamification. He
studies experimental games that intervene in the neoliberal project
from the inside out, examining a broad variety of mainstream and
independent games, including StarCraft, Candy Crush Saga, Stardew
Valley, Dys4ia, Braid, and Undertale. Beyond a diagnosis of
gamification, Jagoda imagines ways that games can be
experimental-not only in the sense of problem solving, but also the
more nuanced notion of problem making that embraces the
complexities of our digital present. The result is a game-changing
book on the sociopolitical potential of this form of mass
entertainment.
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