Guides: Gaming, Gamification and Pedagogy: Books

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GV 1203 Children's Games and Amusements

GV 1312 Board Games

GV 1469 Computer Games, Video Games and Fantasy Games

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Comics and Videogames
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture.
Games of History: Games and Gaming as Historical Sources
Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity can be used as sources for the study of history.
Multimodal Semiotics and Rhetoric in Videogames
This book merges recent trends in game studies and multimodal studies to explore the relationship between the interaction between videogames’ different modes and the ways in which they inform meaning for both players and designers.
Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni
Myst (1993) and Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997) are landmark video games not only within the genre of adventure games but within video game history as well. Not only was Myst for almost a decade the best-selling video game of all time, but it helped to introduce CD-ROM-based gaming and encouraged the sales of CD-ROM drives so that people could play it.