Product Description: Most tools developers want to improve the user experience but are not given the time, lack the techniques, or don’t know where to begin.Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools addresses these issues to empower tools developers to make positive steps toward improving the user experience of their tools...read more

Product Description: What does love have to do with gaming? As games have grown in complexity, they have increasingly included narratives that seek to engage players with love in a variety of ways. While media attention often focuses on violent emotions and behavior in gaming, love has always been central to the experience...read more

Product Description: As the widespread use of digital entertainment has changed not only the ways in which we spend our leisure time but also how we learn and communicate, Serious Games have emerged as an effective tool for the purpose of learning, skill acquisition, and training...read more

Product Description: Heute kommt dem Spiel im Kontext digitaler Medien als Topos und als Metapher eine neue Bedeutung zu. Spiele werden zu 'Spielwelten' und damit zur Metapher neuer, sich schnell entwickelnder Parallelwelten, so z.B. in den komplexen Welten von Onlinespielen oder virtuellen Welten...read more