The contextual game experience: On the socio-cultural contexts for meaning in digital play

3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 810-814

  Mäyrä, Frans ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Context; Gameplay experience; Meaning; Player experience

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; CONTEXT; DIGITAL GAMES; GAME EXPERIENCE; GAME PLAYERS; GAMEPLAY; IMMERSIVE; MEANING; PLAYER EXPERIENCE; SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77957561074     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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