Uncertainty in games (Record no. 63783)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262527538 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 794.81536 COS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Costikyan, Greg |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Uncertainty in games |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge, Massachusetts: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii,141p.: |
| Other physical details | pbk.: |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Playful Thinking |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Notes and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | How uncertainty in games—from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors—engages players and shapes play experiences.<br/><br/>In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Is it any wonder, then, asks Greg Costikyan, that we have taken this aspect of our lives and transformed it culturally, making a series of elaborate constructs that subject us to uncertainty but in a fictive and nonthreatening way? That is: we create games.<br/><br/>In this concise and entertaining book, Costikyan, an award-winning game designer, argues that games require uncertainty to hold our interest, and that the struggle to master uncertainty is central to their appeal. Game designers, he suggests, can harness the idea of uncertainty to guide their work.<br/><br/>Costikyan explores the many sources of uncertainty in many sorts of games—from Super Mario Bros. to Rock/Paper/Scissors, from Monopoly to CityVille, from FPS Deathmatch play to Chess. He describes types of uncertainty, including performative uncertainty, analytic complexity, and narrative anticipation. And he suggest ways that game designers who want to craft novel game experiences can use an understanding of game uncertainty in its many forms to improve their designs.<br/><br/>https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262527538/uncertainty-in-games/ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Game Design Theory |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Player Engagement |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Decision Making In Games |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Performative Uncertainty |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Game Mechanics |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Digital and Analog Games |
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| Item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 10/12/2025 | Books India | 1703.98 | 794.81536 COS | 036499 | 10/12/2025 | 1 | 1703.98 | Books |
