Thursday 3 May 2012

Persuasive Games

By Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost is a professor of digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner at Persuasive Games LLC. He is the author of Unit Operation: An Approach to Video game Criticism and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Video games. 

How Video Games Express Ideas

How do video games express ideas? Without not knowing how games can be expressive in a general fashion, it is difficult to understand how they can be persuasive. And how do video games make arguments? Video games are different from oral, textual, visual, or filmic media, and thus when they try to persuade, they do so in a different sense from speech, writing, images, or moving images. to be continued...








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