Calleja, Gordon
Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design
- ISBN 13:
- 9780262543958
- author:
- Calleja, Gordon
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- MIT Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 centimetres (0.37 kg
- Genre:
- Home & Garden, Crafts & Hobbies, Board Games,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Explore the world of board game design and experience with this in-depth analysis. Gordon Calleja examines key aspects of board game experience, drawing insights from 32 leading professionals, including designers behind popular games like Magic: The Gathering and 7 Wonders. Calleja delves into the nature of play, attention, rules, sociality, imagination, narrative, materiality, and immersion to offer a theory of board game experience and a model for understanding game involvement. He provides a set of conceptual tools that board game design has lacked, helping us understand the richness of the gameplay experience packed into the humble board game box. Through interviews with leading designers and critics, Calleja outlines the key forms of involvement that make up the board game playing experience, tracing how these come together in the moment of gameplay to shape player affect.
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