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In-game : from immersion to incorporation / / Gordon Calleja



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Autore: Calleja Gordon Visualizza persona
Titolo: In-game : from immersion to incorporation / / Gordon Calleja Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
Disciplina: 794.8
Soggetto topico: Video games - Psychological aspects
Video gamers - Psychology
Virtual reality - Psychological aspects
Soggetto non controllato: GAME STUDIES/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Games will be games -- Immersion -- The player involvement model -- Kinaesthetic involvement -- Spatial involvement -- Shared involvement -- Narrative involvement -- Affective involvement -- Ludic involvement -- Incorporation.
Sommario/riassunto: An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion.Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experiences, from the serene exploration of beautifully rendered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challenges presented by strategic simulations to the adrenaline rush of competitive team-based shoot-outs. Digital games enable experiences that are considerably different from a reader's engagement with literature or a moviegoer's experience of a movie. In In-Game, Gordon Calleja examines what exactly it is that makes digital games so uniquely involving and offers a new, more precise, and game-specific formulation of this involvement. One of the most commonly yet vaguely deployed concepts in the industry and academia alike is immersion--a player's sensation of inhabiting the space represented onscreen. Overuse of this term has diminished its analytical value and confused its meaning, both in analysis and design. Rather than conceiving of immersion as a single experience, Calleja views it as blending different experiential phenomena afforded by involving gameplay. He proposes a framework (based on qualitative research) to describe these phenomena: the player involvement model. This model encompasses two constituent temporal phases--the macro, representing offline involvement, and the micro, representing moment-to-moment involvement during gameplay--as well as six dimensions of player involvement: kinesthetic, spatial, shared, narrative, affective, and ludic. The intensified and internalized experiential blend can culminate in incorporation--a concept that Calleja proposes as an alternative to the problematic immersion. Incorporation, he argues, is a more accurate metaphor, providing a robust foundation for future research and design.
Titolo autorizzato: In-game  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-29454-0
1-283-30270-5
9786613302700
0-262-29545-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789717903321
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