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Table of Contents Thank You. Well P
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Introduction Well Played 2.0 More P
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Cloudmaker Days: A Memoir of the A.
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abbreviations from the Periodic Tab
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that curtain was. This decision was
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experience. The ambivalence I felt
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special treat: in very faint text w
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storytelling where the topic is act
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the level of interactive engagement
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he wants the honor and glory for hi
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cinematics are units that go beyond
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differs from the first checkpoint).
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oom that you just saw in the vision
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Figure 10. Screenshot of the Castle
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fight, the space is large enough th
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scenes have more of a pounding elem
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going to have a successful ending (
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Interestingly, it doesn’t rewind
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note, I actually let myself get kil
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an attempt to inject it into gamepl
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Team XBox. Prince of Persia: Sands
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Gray discs require two adjacent bre
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my own music,[72] or more often, I
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allows five discs before a new row
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Chain Factor functioned as the “t
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I think, what well-designed virtual
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The genius of this system is that t
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haunting (and haunted) games I’ve
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Compared to “Sabre Wulf” and
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altitude) depending on the moment o
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Aside from that thread that explora
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would make anyone feel eager to pla
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learn on how to jump and take the o
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DREW DAVIDSON et al. (2008). Beyond
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her picture. When opening the locke
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The story advances with the explora
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Favorite moments Nothing would stop
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than yourself. Your character is re
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on presence, flow, and learning. Ho
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oach did not serve as a distraction
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game. However, some players felt pr
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sugary sweets from the picnic blank
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Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Findin
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30 square kilometers around the Che
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Deus Ex and System Shock to set the
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the dreams,” muses this nameless
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fails to realize that the Zone is n
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leak, empty land-scape highlights t
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The storyline, characters, and even
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enough. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warf
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developers utilize environmental es
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The title of the novel is a referen
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And yet the same sun, the same moon
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(www.perimeterpartners.com), Bill H
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Actraiser Andy Jih While many other
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simple to dive into: run left and r
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the only task left is to go to the
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have ended the game simply with an
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For an adventure game to succeed, i
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cinematic, Manny despairs of his lo
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normal day-to-day life to reach new
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weren’t completed due to budget a
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mechanic Elementals that look like
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Golden Arm and His Girl Friday, tel
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directions except toward the goal.
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This dynamic is played out in a sho
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169 Celia Pearce, “Narrative Envi
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ilovebees: Playing and Designing in
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Curious parties falling through the
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Columns of paired numbers appear, l
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may be, they may still need to be n
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strength of its developers and its
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Resident Evil 4: The Mercenaries Mi
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skills at RE4 have earned you the p
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Another important factor that adds
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The strongest pressure on the playe
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• Do I have enough health left to
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New Section Francisco Souki It was
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the game stayed true throughout the
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a reflective Mamma mia! You only ne
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point it all took shape in my head.
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neutral planet, the attacking ships
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want to attempt to play at an exper
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abusive language. Most importantly,
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Stephen Jacobs is an Associate Prof
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granted by the EPSON Ibérica’s
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and Second Person. He is cited in m
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of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Sim
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designing and developing cross-medi
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