Communities of Play Free

Author: Celia Pearce
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 026251673X
Category: Game Programming

Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. Download Communities of Play game programming books for free. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself. In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds--actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers. Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora--a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Be

Communities of Play Free

Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora--a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Be

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