Power play : how video games can save the world /
Burak, Asi,
Power play : how video games can save the world / Asi Burak and Laura Parker. - First Edition. - xiv, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Not playing around anymore: Video games to enhance our understanding of the world, and each other -- Part 2. From Riyadh to Nairobi: Games that explore pressing social issues from around the world -- Part 3. From the lab to the screen: Games that aim to solve long-standing scientific and medical problems -- Part 4. The tools of a new generation: Celebrating a new breed of young game designers.
9781250089335 (hardcover)
2016036716
Video games--Social aspects.
Video games--Design--History.
GV1469.34.S52 / B86 2017
794.8
Power play : how video games can save the world / Asi Burak and Laura Parker. - First Edition. - xiv, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Not playing around anymore: Video games to enhance our understanding of the world, and each other -- Part 2. From Riyadh to Nairobi: Games that explore pressing social issues from around the world -- Part 3. From the lab to the screen: Games that aim to solve long-standing scientific and medical problems -- Part 4. The tools of a new generation: Celebrating a new breed of young game designers.
9781250089335 (hardcover)
2016036716
Video games--Social aspects.
Video games--Design--History.
GV1469.34.S52 / B86 2017
794.8