Designing Games Meant for Sharing

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved across time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts. It looks at the innovation happening in the field of new age social games and how this can be applied to game development more broadly.

Autorentext

Ioana-Iulia Cazacu is a Game Designer at Mojiworks Limited.

Inhalt

Part 1: Games have always been social

Chapter 1 A history of games as social interaction

Chapter 2 The person, the group and the game

Chapter 3 Games as a piece of the social puzzle

Part 2: The beginnings of social gaming

Chapter 4 The birth of social media gaming

Chapter 5 The fall of Facebook social games

Part 3: Social game design for a modern audience

Chapter 6 Experimenting with social mechanics

Chapter 7 The hyper-social audience

Chapter 8 Designing for a social-centric audience

Chapter 9 The ethics of social game design

Part 4: Innovative game design

Chapter 10 From observation to innovation