Free-To-Play: Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms

by Christopher A Paul and Christopher A. Paul

Book Overview

An examination of free-to-play and mobile games that traces what is valued and what is marginalized in discussions of games.

Free-to-play and mobile video games are an important and growing part of the video game industry, and yet they are often disparaged by journalists, designers, and players and pronounced inferior to to games with more traditional payment models. In this book, Christopher Paul shows that underlying the criticism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262539411
• ISBN13: 9780262539418
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"