How Games Move Us Isbister Katherine Professor University of California Santa Cruz
How Games Move Us Isbister Katherine Professor University of California Santa Cruz An engaging examination of how video game design can create strong, positive emotional experiences for players--with…
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How Games Move Us Isbister Katherine Professor University of California Santa Cruz
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. 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. But how do games create emotion?
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 counters arguments that games are creating a generation of isolated, emotionally numb, antisocial loners. She offers a nuanced, systematic examination of exactly how games can influence