Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Michele D. Dickey, USA) Dickey, Michele D. (Miami University

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Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning provides learning designers with insight into how the different elements that comprise game aesthetics can inform the design of game-based learning. Regardless of the cognitive complexities involved, games are essentially entertainment media, and aesthetics play a large role in how they are experienced. Yet too often the role of aesthetics in the research about game-based learning has been relegated to a surface discussion of graphics or neglected altogether. Aesthetics and Design for Game-based Learning begins by addressing the broad context of game aesthetics, then addresses specific elements with chapters focusing on:player positioning game mechanicsnarrative designenvironment designcharacter design.Each chapter includes research and guidelines for design, and a conclusion addresses aesthetics in the research of game-based learning.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-03-10
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt385 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDigital Games, Simulations, and Play in Learning
Antal sidor160
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415720946

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"This book is about a vital but neglected aspect of game-based learning: emotionally imbuing participants with motivation and meaning through aesthetic experiences. Like the vision of games it espouses, Dickey weaves a seamless, elegant, and complete exposition of design principles for aesthetic learning."Chris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard University, USA"A useful, in-depth examination of how aesthetics contribute to the growing complexity of gaming, filling another niche in the rapidly developing world of gaming scholarship. Michele Dickey examines how aesthetics are used in a number of different ways and via differing critical lenses in order to give a comprehensive, well-informed picture of how they inform game-based design and learning. By studying the ways that aesthetics function within different game genres, as well as providing useful directions to using aesthetics within educational game design, this book provides an informative, solid guide to critical and practical applications of aesthetics in gaming."Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of West England, UK