Multiplayer Online Games: Origins, Players, and Social Dynamics

By Guo Freeman

Book 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815392877
• ISBN13: 9780815392873
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: A K PETERS
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"