(Download) Uncertainty in Games (Playful Thinking)
☆ Greg Costikyan ☆
| #328929 in Books | 2015-01-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.44 x5.38l,.0 | File Name: 0262527537 | 152 pages
||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Deserves a Much Wider Readership|By Chris Ziesler|Reading this under-appreciated book (it's currently languishing at #557,270 on the best seller rankings) it came as a wonderful revelation to me that an author could take a subject of such seemingly limited appeal and produce a work of such general insight and interest.
Costikyan sets out to examine the question of|||Once again, Greg Costikyan has given us an original and insightful angle on game design. In a world inundated with overwrought megabytes about fun, graphics, and immersion, Costikyan shows that an analysis of the role of uncertainty in games sheds important
How uncertainty in games -- from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors -- engages players and shapes play experiences.
In life, uncertainty surrounds us. 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. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. But we do devote mu...
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