Challenge everything? Construction play in Will Wright's SIMCITY

Games and Culture

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 194-212

  Lauwaert, Maaike ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer games; Participation culture; Player anarchy; SimCity; Toys

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249155151     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412007306205     Document Type: Article

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