Characteristics of Games

by K Robert Gutschera, Richard Garfield, George Skaff Elias, et al.

Book Overview

Understanding games--whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports--by analyzing certain common traits.

Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits--including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward/effort ratio--and using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often discussed by game players and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026201713X
• ISBN13: 9780262017138
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher