The Digital Gaming Handbook

Part 1 Game Analysis, Player Experience, and Accessibility

Chapter 1 â-¾ Analyzing Games with the AGE and 6-11

Frameworks 3

Roberto Dillon

Chapter 2 â-¾ Designing Player Interdependence to

Enhance Playersâ Social Experience in

Multiplayer Games 19

Katharina Emmerich

Chapter 3 â-¾ Game Accessibility: Getting Started 37

Thomas Westin, Ian Hamilton and Barrie Ellis

Part 2 Gamification and Serious Games

Chapter 4 â-¾ Gamification for Good: Addressing Dark

Patterns in Gamified UX Design 53

Ole Goethe

Chapter 5 â-¾ The Social Media Game? How Gamification

Shapes Our Social Media Engagement 63

Dayana Hristova, Suzana Jovicic, Barbara Goebl and

Thomas Sluneck

Chapter 6 â-¾ Games for Health 95

Andr©s Adolfo Navarro-Newball

Part 3 Game Design, Level Design, and Storytelling

Chapter 7 â-¾ Free to Play Mobile Game Design

Fundamentals 117

Simon Rozner

Chapter 8 â-¾ Evergreen Game Design Principles 127

Roberto Dillon

Chapter 9 â-¾ Architectural Spaces and Level Design in

Modern Games 141

Christopher W. Totten

Chapter 10 â-¾ Encouraging and Rewarding Repeat Play

of Storygames 163

Alex Mitchell

Part 4 Game Development and Technology

Chapter 11 â-¾ How We Make Mobile Work: An Indie

Perspective 185

James Barnard

Chapter 12 â-¾ The Development and UI Design of

an Interactive Game Map 199

Tomasz Zawadzki, Korneliusz Warszawski, Slawomir Krezel

and Slawomir Nikiel

Chapter 13 â-¾ Challenges in Designing and Implementing

a Vector-Based 2D Animation System 245

Jie Jiang, Hock Soon Seah, Hong Ze Liew, and Quan Chen

Chapter 14 â-¾ Best Practices for Pixel Art 275

Cindy Lee

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Chapter 15 â-¾ Making Sound Decisions in Game Audio 287

Gwen Guo

Chapter 16 â-¾ Making It Real 303

Andre Pong and Justin Ng

Chapter 17 â-¾ Player Locomotion in Virtual Reality Games 313

Andrey Krekhov and Katharina Emmerich

Chapter 18 â-¾ Working Everywhere and Nowhere.

A Practical Guide to the Virtual Office 331

Allan Simonsen

Part 5 Game History, Society, and Culture

Chapter 19 â-¾ A Short Summary of Mobile Gamesâ History 341

Simon Rozner

Chapter 20 â-¾ Retrogaming as a Form of Digital

Preservation: A Cultural and Technological

Approach 359

Marco Acc ordi Rick ards, Micaela Romanini and

Guglielmo De Gregori

Chapter 21 â-¾ Diversity in Games: How and Why? 383

Alayna Cole