Well Played 2.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning - OpenLibra

From the same author on Feedbooks
Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media (2008)
This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations
and interactive experiences in learning contexts. The contributors
orchestrated this collection together, reading and writing as a
whole so that concepts resonate across articles. Throughout, the
promises and problems of implementing games and media in
learning experiences are explored. The articles have been authored
by Clark Aldrich, Ian Bogost, Mia Consalvo, William Crosbie,
Drew Davidson, Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Melinda Jackson,
Donna Leishman, Michael Mateas, Marc Prensky, Scott Rettberg,
Kurt Squire, David Thomas, Siobhan Thomas, Jill Walker Rettberg,
and Jenny Weight.
Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning (2009)
What makes a game good? or bad? or better?
Video games can be “well played” in two senses. On the one hand,
well played is to games as well read is to books. On the other
hand, well played as in well done.
This book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that
parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of
playing a game. 22 contributors (developers, scholars, reviewers
and bloggers) look at video games through both senses of “well
played.”
The goal is to help develop and define a literacy of games as well
as a sense of their value as an experience. Video games are a complex
medium that merits careful interpretation and insightful
analysis.
Cross-Media Communications: an Introduction to the Art of
Creating Integrated Media Experiences (2010)
This text is an introduction to the future of mass media and mass
communications – cross-media communications. Cross-media is
explained through the presentation and analysis of contemporary
examples and project-based tutorials in cross-media development.
The text introduces fundamental terms and concepts, and
provides a solid overview of cross-media communications, one
that builds from a general introduction to a specific examination
of media and genres to a discussion of the concepts involved in
284