Author: Ian Bogost
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0262514885
Category: Game Programming
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0262514885
Category: Game Programming
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. Download Persuasive Games game programming books for free. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), op
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Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), op
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