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Doing Things With Games

Doing Things With Games Social Impact Through Play

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Publisher's Synopsis

The book provides a contemporary foundation in designing social impact games. It is structured in 3 parts: understanding, application, and implementation. The book serves as a guide to designing social impact games, particularly focused on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It serves as a guide for people looking to create social impact play, informed by heuristics in game design.

Key Features

  • Provides contemporary guide on the use of games to create social impact for beginner to intermediate practitioners
  • o Provides design and implementation strategies for social impact games
  • Provides wide ranging case studies in social impact games
  • Provides professional advice from multiple social impact industry practitioners via sidebar interviews, quotes, and postmortems
  • Provides a quick start guide on creating a variety of social impact engagements across a wide variety of subjects and aims

    • Book information

    ISBN: 9781138367265
    Publisher: CRC Press
    Imprint: CRC Press
    Pub date:
    DEWEY: 306.487
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 266
    Weight: 418g
    Height: 156mm
    Width: 232mm
    Spine width: 14mm

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