Christopher A. Paul
An examination of free-to-play and mobile games that traces what is valued and what is marginalized in discussions of games.
Free-to-play and mobile video games are an important and growing part of the video game industry, and yet they are often disparaged by journalists, designers, and players and pronounced inferior to to games with more traditional payment models. In this book, Christopher Paul shows that underlying the criticism is a bias against these games that stems more from who is making and playing them than how they are monetized. Free-to-play and mobile games appeal to a different kind of player, many of whom are women and many of whom prefer different genres of games than multi-level action-oriented killing fests. It's not a coincidence that some of the few free-to-play games that have been praised by games journalists are League of Legends and World of Tanks.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
LANGUAGE | BINDING | EDITION | ISBN | YEAR | PAGES |
English | Paperback | | 9780262539418 | 2020 | 312 |
English | eBook | | N/A | 2020 | 312 |
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Authors: #ChristopherAPaul
Publishers: #TheMITPress (The MIT Press)
Languages: #English
Format: #eBook #Paperback
Accessibility: #EnhancedTypesetting #ScreenReader #TextToSpeech
Year: #Year2020
Genres: #GameStudies #MobileGaming
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Games:
#Artifact (Artifact)
#Bejeweled (Bejeweled)
#Borderlands (Borderlands 2)
#CandyCrush (Candy Crush Saga, Candy Crush Soda Saga)
#ClashOfClans (Clash of Clans)
#ClickerHeroes (Clicker Heroes)
#CookieClicker (Cookie Clicker)
#DisneyMagicKingdoms (Disney Magic Kingdoms)
#DOTA (Dota 2)
#FIFA (FIFA series)
#FinalFantasy (#FinalFantasyXV [Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire])
#Fortnite (Fortnite)
#GameOfWar (Game of War: Fire Age)
#HarryPotter (Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery)
#Hearthstone (Hearthstone)
#HonorOfKings (Honor of Kings)
#KimKardashianHollywood (Kim Kardashian: Hollywood) #LeagueOfLegends (League of Legends)
#Mario (#MarioKart [Mario Kart Tour], Super Mario Run)
#MarvelAvengersAcademy (Marvel Avengers Academy)
#MarvelStrikeForce (Marvel Strike Force)
#NBA2K (NBA 2K series)
#Peggle (Peggle, Peggle: Blast)
#Pokémon (Pokémon: Go)
#PuzzleQuest (Marvel Puzzle Quest)
#RustysRealDealBaseball (Rusty's Real Deal Baseball)
#SimCity (SimCity BuildIt)
#StarWars (Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes)
#TapSportsBaseball (Tap Sports Baseball)
#TeamFortress (Team Fortress 2)
#TripleTown (Triple Town)
#Vainglory (Vainglory)
#Warframe (Warframe)
#WorldOfTanks (World of Tanks, World of Tanks Blitz)
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