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050	d	a	_cCaBNVSL _dCaBNVSL 4
082			_b.C67 2015e
100			_a794.8/1536 _2231 _aCosti _924018
245			_eauthor.10 _aUncertainty in game
264			_cGreg Costikyan. 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
264			_bMIT Press, _c[2015] 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _b
300			_c[2015]
336			_a1 PDF (152 pages).
337			_atext _2rdacontent _ae
338			_2isbdmedia _aonline
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504			_aIncludes bibliographical r
506			_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electro
520			_aIn 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. 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. 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 im
530			_aAlso
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588			_aDescription based on PD
650			_aGames _xDesi _924019
650			_aGame theory. 0 _aVideo games _xDesi _924020
650			_aComputer games _xDesi _924021
710	0		_aElectronic books.2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Ser _924022
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830			_z9780262018968 0 _aPla _924024
856			_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstract
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