Defining game mechanics

Game Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Sicart, Miguel ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Challenges; Game design; Game mechanics; Game research; Rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893978360     PISSN: 16047982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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