Alternate reality games and the cusp of digital gameplay. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Antero Garcia and Greg Niemeyer.
• Editors: Garcia, Antero; Niemeyer, Greg
• Contents: From alternate to alternative reality : games as cultural probes / Patrick Jagoda, Melissa Gilliam, Peter McDonald, and Ashlyn Sparrow -- The game did not take place : this is not a game and blurring the lines of fiction / Alan Hook -- Alternate reality games for learning : a frame by frame analysis / Anthony Pellicone, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Kathryn Kaczmarek, Kari Kraus, June Ahn, & Derek Hansen -- Promotional alternate reality games and the TINAG philosophy / Stephanie Janes -- The coachella disaster : how the puppet masters of art of the h3ist pulled a victory from the jaws of defeat / Burcu S. Bakiolu -- Designing and playing peer-produced ARGs in the primary classroom : supporting literacies through play / Angela Colvert -- Games beyond the arg / Jeff Watson -- Methods : studying alternate reality games as virtual worlds / Calvin Johns -- A typology to describe alternate reality games for cultural contexts / Diane Dufort and Federico Tajariol -- Sociability by design in an alternate reality game : the case of the Trail / Roinioti Elina, Pandia Eleana, Skarpelos Yannis -- Ingress : a restructuring of the ARG or a new genre? : an ethnography of enlightened and resistance factions in Brazil / Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 794.8/1536; Game theory; Video games -- Design; Shared virtual environments; Game-based learning; Popular culture; Games -- Video & Electronic; Social Science -- Media Studies; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Media studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501316258; 1501316257
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