TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bauer,René
AU  - Suter,Beat
AU  - Kocher,Mela
TI  - Games and Rules: Game Mechanics for the »Magic Circle« 
SN  - 9783839443040
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Social Science / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish motivations in a dedicated space, a »Magic Circle«, whereas game mechanics are constructs of rules designed for interactions that provide gameplay. Those rules form the base for all the excitement and frustration we experience in games. This anthology contains individual essays by authors with backgrounds in Game Design and Game Studies, who lead the discourse to get to the bottom of game mechanics in video games and the real world
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/686ee3de-e1a4-49c5-a0a8-fa271178ed4b
ER  -