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Author
Elias, George Skaff
Title
Characteristics of games / George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield, and K. Robert Gutschera ; foreword by Eric Zimmerman ; diagrams by Peter Whitley
Published
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2012
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Description
1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrations
Contents
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Basics; 2 Multiplayer Games; 3 Infrastructure; 4 Games as Systems; 5 Indeterminacy; 6 Player Effort; 7 Superstructure; 8 Appendixes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Understanding games -- whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports -- by analyzing certain common traits
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and index
Notes
English
Print version record
Subject
Games -- Design and construction
Games -- Rules.
Game theory.
Game Theory
GAMES -- Reference.
GAMES -- Travel Games.
Game theory
Games
Games -- Design and construction
Genre/Form
Rules
Form
Electronic book
Author
Garfield, Richard
Gutschera, Karl Robert, 1964-
ISBN
9780262301237
0262301237
0262300443
9780262300445
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