How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design by Isbister, Katherine

How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design

An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players--with examples...
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Author: Katherine Isbister
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How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design by Isbister, Katherine

How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design

$52.70

How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design

$52.70
Author: Katherine Isbister
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players--with examples from popular, indie, and art games.

This is a renaissance moment for video games--in the variety of genres they represent, and the range of emotional territory they cover. But how do games create emotion? In How Games Move Us, Katherine Isbister takes the reader on a timely and novel exploration of the design techniques that evoke strong emotions for players. She counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. Games, Isbister shows us, can actually play a powerful role in creating empathy and other strong, positive emotional experiences; they reveal these qualities over time, through the act of playing. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence emotion and social connection, with examples--drawn from popular, indie, and art games--that unpack the gamer's experience.

Isbister describes choice and flow, two qualities that distinguish games from other media, and explains how game developers build upon these qualities using avatars, non-player characters, and character customization, in both solo and social play. She shows how designers use physical movement to enhance players' emotional experience, and examines long-distance networked play. She illustrates the use of these design methods with examples that range from Sony's Little Big Planet to the much-praised indie game Journey to art games like Brenda Romero's Train.

Isbister's analysis shows us a new way to think about games, helping us appreciate them as an innovative and powerful medium for doing what film, literature, and other creative media do: helping us to understand ourselves and what it means to be human.

Author: Katherine Isbister
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 10/27/2017
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262534451
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Isbister, Katherine: - Katherine Isbister is Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of Better Game Characters by Design. She was the founding Director of the Game Innovation Lab at New York University.

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