Hardcore casual: Game culture return(s) to ravenhearst

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 50-54

  Consalvo, Mia ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Casual game players; Casual games; Fan culture; Game culture; Videogames

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY APPROACH; CASUAL GAME PLAYERS; GAME PLAYERS; VIDEO GAME;

EID: 77953578563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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