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OverviewThe book provides a contemporary foundation in designing social impact games. It is structured in 3 parts: understanding, application, and implementation. The book serves as a guide to designing social impact games, particularly focused on the needs of, media professionals, indie game designers and college students. It serves as a guide for people looking to create social impact play, informed by heuristics in game design. Key Features Provides contemporary guide on the use of games to create social impact for beginner to intermediate practitioners o Provides design and implementation strategies for social impact games Provides wide ranging case studies in social impact games Provides professional advice from multiple social impact industry practitioners via sidebar interviews, quotes, and postmortems Provides a quick start guide on creating a variety of social impact engagements across a wide variety of subjects and aims Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lindsay GracePublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138367272ISBN 10: 1138367273 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 15 July 2019 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLindsay Grace is Knight Chair of Interactive Media and an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance, and founded the American University Game Lab and Studio, which completed hundreds of thousands of dollars in purpose driven play designs annually. Clients included the US National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), the Educational Testing Service (ETS), The World Bank, VOX Media and others. Lindsay's personal creative work has received awards and recognition from the Games for Change Festival, the Digital Diversity Network, the Association of Computing Machinery’s digital arts community, Black Enterprise and others. This work has been selected for showcase internationally including New York, Paris, Sao Paolo, Singapore, Chicago, Vancouver, Istanbul, and more. Lindsay curated or co-curated the Blank Arcade exhibits (2015-2019), Smithsonian American Art Museum’s SAAM Arcade (2014-2017), the Games for Change Civic and Social Impact (2017) and others. He has given talks and keynotes at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), SXSW, the Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, Smithsonian Institutes, and many other industry events. His opinions on games have been offered by CNN, Al-Jazeera, National Public Radio and others. He has been teaching games and interactive media design for more than a decade. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |