Designing Games Meant for Sharing [Hardcover]

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved across time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts. It looks at the innovation happening in the field of new age social games and how this can be applied to game development more broadly.

Part 1: Games have always been social

Chapter 1 A history of games as social interaction

Chapter 2 The person, the group and the game

Chapter 3 Games as a piece of the social puzzle

Part 2: The beginnings of social gaming

Chapter 4 The birth of social media gaming

Chapter 5 The fall of Facebook social games

Part 3: Social game design for a modern audience

Chapter 6 Experimenting with social mechanics

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts. It looks at the innovation happening in the field of new-age social games,lÓ