Lindsay Grace

Doing Things with Games (eBook, ePUB)

Social Impact Through Play

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A contemporary foundation in designing social impact games, this book serves as a guide to designing social impact games with focus on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It is a guide for people looking to create social impact play in game design

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429771309
• Artikelnr.: 57080244

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Grace is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, and founded the American University Game Lab and Studio, which completed hundreds of thousands of dollars in purpose driven play designs annually. Clients included the US National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), the Educational Testing Service (ETS), The World Bank, VOX Media and others.

Lindsay's personal creative work has received awards and recognition from the Games for Change Festival, the Digital Diversity Network, the Association of Computing Machinery's digital arts community, Black Enterprise and others. This work has been selected for showcase internationally including New York, Paris, Sao Paolo, Singapore, Chicago, Vancouver, Istanbul, and more.

Lindsay curated or co-curated the Blank Arcade exhibits (2015-2019), Smithsonian American Art Museum's SAAM Arcade (2014-2017), the Games for Change Civic and Social Impact (2017) and others. He has given talks and keynotes at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), SXSW, the Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, Smithsonian Institutes, and many other industry events. His opinions on games have been offered by CNN, Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio and others. He has been teaching games and interactive media design for more than a decade.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Social Impact Play and Games 2. Designing for Social
Impact-Overview 3. Engagement Design and Serious Play 4. Education Games 5.
Games for Mental and Physical Health 6. Newsgames: Reportage and Simulation
Games 7. Persuasive Play 8. Empathy Games 9. Community Games 10. Human
Computation Games 11. Assessing Impact Efficacy 12. Designing with Clients
and Subject Matter Experts 13. Implementation