Social, casual and mobile games the changing gaming landscape
"Social, casual and mobile games, played on devices such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs and accessed through online social networks, have become extremely popular, and are changing the ways in which games are designed, understood, and played. These games have sparked a revolution as more peopl...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic
2016.
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- Introduction: Casual Games and Mobile Devices: The Shifting Contexts of Gamers and Gaming, Michele Willson and Tama Leaver (Curtin University, Australia)
- Part I: The (New?) Gaming Landscape
- Chapter 1 - Who Are the Casual Gamers?, Lina Eklund (Stockholm University, Sweden)Chapter 2 - Between Aliens, Hackers, and Birds: Non-Casual Mobile Games and Mobile Game Design, Brendan Keogh (RMIT University, Australia)Chapter 3 - Casual Gaming: The Changing Role of the Designer, Laureline Chiapello (University of Montréal, Canada)Chapter 4 - Discussions with Developers: Free2Play and the Changing Landscape of Games Development, Tom Phillips (CREATe/University of East Anglia, UK)Part II: Reasons to Play
- Chapter 5 - The Sociality of Asynchronicity: Social Network Games and Family Bonding, Kelly Bourdreau and Mia Consalvo (Concordia University, Canada)Chapter 6 - The Rise of Affection Games: The Private Lives of Mobile Devices, Lindsay Grace (American University, USA)Chapter 7 - Mobile Games and Ambient Play, Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia) and Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch University, Australia)Chapter 8 - Affect and Social Value in Freemium Games, Fanny Ramirez (Rutgers University, USA)Part III: Locative Play
- Chapter 9 - Riding in Cars with Strangers: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and American Teamwork in Ingress, Stacy Blasiola, Miao Feng and Adrienne Massanari (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)Chapter 10 - COMM [secure]: Locatedness and Pseudo-Anonymity While Playing Ingress, Erin Stark (Curtin University, Australia)Chapter 11 - Rewriting Neighbourhoods: Zombies, Run! and the Runner as Rhetor, Jamie Henthorn (Old Dominion University, USA)Chapter 12 - The De-Gamification of Foursquare?, Rowan Wilken (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)Part IV: New Markets
- Chapter 13 - Social Games and the Experience Economy, Mark Balnaves (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Gary Madden (Curtin University, Australia)Chapter 14 - Angry Birds as a Social Network Market, Tama Leaver (Curtin University, Australia)Chapter 15 - The Mobile Game Value Network, David Nieborg (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and MIT, USA)
- Part V. Cheating, Gambling and Addiction
- Chapter 16 - Gambling and Addiction? Social Casino Apps and Digital Media Practices, Cesar Albarrán-Torres (The University of Sydney, Australia)Chapter 17 - Cheating in Candy Crush Saga, Marcus Carter (The University of Melbourne, Australia) and Staffan Björk (Göteborg University, Sweden)Afterword: Players and the Question of Gender After GamerGate?, Adrienne Shaw (Temple University, USA) and Shira Chess (University of Georgia, USA)Bibliography
- Index.
