Doing Things with Games

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Doing Things with Games

Social Impact Through Play

Research methods: general Computer games design Computer applications in the social and behavioural sciences

Author: Lindsay Grace

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Language: English

Published by: CRC Press

Published on: 1st July 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9780429771309


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
  • 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

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