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Delay: Paying Attention to Energy Mechanics

ByZoya Street

Why do so many casual games tell you to stop playing them? If you've ever run out of lives in Candy Crush Saga or played a Zynga game, you've encountered an energy mechanic - you run out of a resource, and have to stop playing while it regenerates or pay money to continue. In this short collection of essays, Zoya Street explores energy mechanics. Each essay weaves in a new idea, and then applies those ideas to key examples from social and mobile gaming, bringing together game design theory with queer theory, anthropology and a study of the recent history of social game design. NOTE: this is a mini-book of just over 12000 words.

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Publication Date
Jun 27, 2014
Language
English
Category
Games
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Zoya Street

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Format
EPUB

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