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Multiplayer Online Games : Origins, Players, and Social Dynamics
by Guo Freeman
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Overview
Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) have become a new genre of "play culture," integrating communication and entertainment in a playful, computer-mediated environment that evolves through user interaction. This book comprehensively investigates the technological origins, human factors, and social dynamics of MOGs, including online dating and online gaming; augmented games and virtual reality; serious games; eSports and game streaming; casual and mobile games; and the growth of indie games. MOGs represent a highly sophisticated, networked, multimedia and multimodal Internet technology, which can construct entertaining, simultaneous, persistent social virtual worlds for gamers.
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- ISBN-13: 9780815392873
- ISBN-10: 0815392877
- Publisher: A K PETERS
- Publish Date: February 2018
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
- Page Count: 166
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