00000cmm a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217611190009 Buklod 20241017095210.0 m go j cr |n |||auu|a 241017s2011 xxk go j eng 9781849961578 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00214606720 DMLR rda eng DMLUC QC 76.76 C672 H37 2011eb Harteveld, Casper. editor. Triadic game design balancing reality, meaning and play [electronic resource] by Casper Harteveld. London Springer [©2011] 1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Press Start -- Foundations -- Reality -- Meaning -- Play -- Balancing -- Game Over?- Notes -- Literature Bibliography -- Game Bibliography -- Solutions -- Workshop -- Worksheets -- Index. IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website.  Many designers, policy makers, teachers, and other practitioners are beginning to understand the usefulness of using digital games beyond entertainment. This has led to an increasing number of attempts to apply games meaningfully. Games have been developed from teaching students about history, making patients adhere in taking their medicine, to recruiting personnel for the military and collecting data to improve search engines. Yet, little is known on how to design such games. This book is one of the first to look into the fundamentals of designing any game with a serious purpose and provides a way of thinking on how to design one successfully. Drawing on the personal design experience of the author as well as dozens of examples, the reader will be introduced to a design philosophy called ?Triadic Game Design.? This argues that all games involve three worlds: the worlds of Reality, Meaning, and Play. Each world is affiliated with different people, disciplines, aspects, and criteria. The philosophy also posits that a balance needs to be found within and between the three worlds. Such a balance is difficult to achieve, during the design many tensions will arise, forcing designers to make trade-offs. To deal with these tensions and to ensure that the right decisions are made to create a harmonic game, a frame of reference is needed. This is what Triadic Game Design offers. And this is what makes it an invaluable tool for practitioners and researchers who are interested in using and designing games that have a real world impact. Electronic reproduction. New York SpringerLink c2011. Available via World Wide Web through SpringerLink.? Computer games Design. Simulated environment (Teaching method) Electronic books. SpringerLink (Online service). Electronic Resource Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-84996-157-8 FO Monograph UPD DMLR QA 76.76 C672 H37 2011eb Electronic Resource