Lindsay D Grace

Love and Electronic Affection

A Design Primer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer brings together thought leadership in romance and affection games to explain the past, present and possible future of affection play in games.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138367241
• ISBN-10: 1138367249
• Artikelnr.: 69946552

Autorenporträt

Lindsay is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay's is author of, Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design and more than 50 peer reviewed papers on games and related research. He has given talks at the Game Developers Conference, SXSW, Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and many other industry events. He was the founding director of the American University Game Lab and Studio and the designer-developer behind several award winning games, including two affection games. He served as Vice President and on the board of directors for the Global Game Jam(TM) non-profit between 2014-2019. From 2009 to 2013 he was the Armstrong Professor at Miami University's School of Art. Lindsay also served on the board for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) between 2013-2015.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Affection Play Overview 2. Affection Games History Primer 3. Flirting
Games and Hugging Games 4. EKissing Games 5. Dating Simulations Games 6.
Instrumentalized Affection 7. Affection in MMORPG¿s 8. Experiments in
Digital Affection 10. Future of Affection in Games