<p>It seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students enjoy engaging with course content and have extensive experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex. This book explores ludoliteracy, or the question of what it means to understand games, by looking at the challenges and problems faced by students taking games-related classes. In response to these challenges, this book then describes how online learning environments can be used to support learning about games by helping students get more from their experiences with games, and helping students use what they know to establish deeper understanding. Based on the findings from a series of research studies, Ludoliteracy examines the broader implications for supporting games education.</p>

Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education

Computers & Technology

Zagal, José P.

Games & Strategy Guides

ETC Press

Using the medium of metaphor Omega Odyssey takes a unique view of the corporate workplace. Omega Odyssey deals with the paradox of life faced in the business world. The prize of reaching the top of the corporate ladder is contrasted to the actual process of the climb. Omega Odyssey challenges the traditional paradigm of power or money equating to success. This work will give rise to introspection and reflection.

Omega Odyssey : A Business Metaphor

Gage, Bill

<p>Before the multibillion computer game industry, there was Dungeons &amp; Dragons, a tabletop game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974. D&amp;D captured the attention of a small but influential group of players, many of whom also gravitated to the computer networks that were then appearing on college campuses around the globe. With the subsequent emergence of the personal computer, a generation of geeky storytellers arose that translated communal D&amp;D playing experiences into the virtual world of computer games. The result of that 40-year journey is today's massive global community of players who, through games, have forged very real friendships and built thriving lives in virtual worlds. Dungeons &amp; Dreamers follows the designers, developers, and players who built the virtual games and communities that define today's digital entertainment landscape and explores the nature of what it means to live and thrive in virtual communities.</p>

Dungeons & Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community

King, Brad

Borland, John

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