Uncertainty in Games Costikyan Greg Paperback
Uncertainty in Games Costikyan Greg Paperback How uncertainty in games--from Super Mario Bros. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we…
Specifikacia Uncertainty in Games Costikyan Greg Paperback
Uncertainty in Games Costikyan Greg Paperback
How uncertainty in games--from Super Mario Bros. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. to Rock/Paper/Scissors--engages players and shapes play experiences.In life, uncertainty surrounds us.
But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. Is it any wonder, then, asks Greg Costikyan, that we have taken this aspect of our lives and transformed it culturally, making a series of elaborate constructs that subject us to uncertainty but in a fictive and nonthreatening way?
That is: we create games.In this concise and entertaining book, Costikyan, an award-winning game designer, argues that games require uncertainty
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