Exploring aesthetic ideals of gameplay

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory - Proceedings of DiGRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lundgren, Sus ^a   Bergström, Karl J ^b   Björk, Staffan ^b,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INTERACTIVE INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Gameplay

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; GAMEPLAY;

GAME THEORY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84858985823     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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