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PXL-IT 2016 --- programmeren --- software --- gamedesign --- grafische programma's

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"What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we are happy and well rested, we may approach even our daily tasks in a playful way, taking the attitude of play without the activity of play. So what, then, is play? In Play Matters, Miguel Sicart argues that to play is to be in the world; playing is a form of understanding what surrounds us and a way of engaging with others. Play goes beyond games; it is a mode of being human. We play games, but we also play with toys, on playgrounds, with technologies and design. Sicart proposes a theory of play that doesn't derive from a particular object or activity but is a portable tool for being--not tied to objects but brought by people to the complex interactions that form their daily lives. It is not separated from reality; it is part of it. It is pleasurable, but not necessarily fun. Play can be dangerous, addictive, and destructive. long the way, Sicart considers playfulness, the capacity to use play outside the context of play; toys, the materialization of play--instruments but also play pals; playgrounds, play spaces that enable all kinds of play; beauty, the aesthetics of play through action; political play -- from Maradona's goal against England in the 1986 World Cup to the hactivist activities of Anonymous; the political, aesthetic, and moral activity of game design; and why play and computers get along so well."

Jeu --- Play --- Psychological aspects --- 527 --- gamedesign. --- Psychological aspects. --- Specifieke toepassingen van informatica. --- Jeu. --- gamedesign --- Specifieke toepassingen van informatica --- informatica - specifieke toepassingen

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The play-focused, step-by-step guide to creating great game designs This book offers a play-focused, process-oriented approach for designing games people will love to play. Drawing on a combined 35 years of design and teaching experience, Colleen Macklin and John Sharp link the concepts and elements of play to the practical tasks of game design. Using full-color examples, they reveal how real game designers think and work, and illuminate the amazing expressive potential of great game design. Focusing on practical details, this book guides you from idea to prototype to playtest and fully realized design. You'll walk through conceiving and creating a game's inner workings, including its core actions, themes, and especially its play experience. Step by step, you'll assemble every component of your videogame, creating practically every kind of play: from cooperative to competitive, from chance-based to role-playing, and everything in between. Macklin and Sharp believe that games are for everyone, and game design is an exciting art form with a nearly unlimited array of styles, forms, and messages. Cutting across traditional platform and genre boundaries, they help you find inspiration wherever it exists. Games, Design and Play is for all game design students, and for beginning-to-intermediate-level game professionals, especially independent game designers. Bridging the gaps between imagination and production, it will help you craft outstanding designs for incredible play experiences! Coverage includes: Understanding core elements of play design: actions, goals, rules, objects, playspace, and players - Mastering tools such as constraint, interaction, goals, challenges, strategy, chance, decision, storytelling, and context. - Comparing types of play and player experiences. - Considering the demands videogames make on players. - Establishing a game's design values. - Creating design documents, schematics, and tracking spreadsheets. - Collaborating in teams on a shared design vision. - Brainstorming and conceptualizing designs. - Using prototypes to realize and playtest designs. - Improving designs by making the most of playtesting feedback. - Knowing when a design is ready for production. - Learning the rules so you can break them!

Video games --- Computer games --- 527 --- gamedesign --- Design --- informatica - specifieke toepassingen --- Design.

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Digital Beauties is not a technical "how to" book. It is an inspirational guide to the digital creation of feminine subjects. It has very rich information on how artists from all around the world created their masterpieces. This information is not as technical as a software command; rather, it is a signpost for creative exploration.

Computer drawing. --- Computer drawing --- 684.94 --- figuurtekenen --- gamedesign --- games --- Computer graphics --- Drawing --- Image processing --- het boek, boekillustratie --- Digital techniques

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In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers now regularly appear in the New York Times and the New Yorker, and sales figures for games are reported alongside those of books, music, and movies. They are increasingly used for purposes other than entertainment, yet debates about videogames still fork along one of two paths: accusations of debasement through violence and isolation or defensive paeans to their potential as serious cultural works. In How to Do Things with Videogames, Ian Bogost contends that such generalizations obscure the limitless possibilities offered by the medium’s ability to create complex simulated realities. Bogost, a leading scholar of videogames and an award-winning game designer, explores the many ways computer games are used today: documenting important historical and cultural events; educating both children and adults; promoting commercial products; and serving as platforms for art, pornography, exercise, relaxation, pranks, and politics. Examining these applications in a series of short, inviting, and provocative essays, he argues that together they make the medium broader, richer, and more relevant to a wider audience. Bogost concludes that as videogames become ever more enmeshed with contemporary life, the idea of gamers as social identities will become obsolete, giving rise to gaming by the masses. But until games are understood to have valid applications across the cultural spectrum, their true potential will remain unrealized. How to Do Things with Videogames offers a fresh starting point to more fully consider games’ progress today and promise for the future.

Video games --- Social aspects --- 527 --- Games --- gamedesign --- simulaties --- video games --- informatica - specifieke toepassingen --- Jeu vidéo --- Jeu --- Art vidéo --- Informatique appliquée --- Informatique graphique --- Video games - Social aspects