Synthetic Worlds
The Business and Culture of Online Games
344 pages, 1 line drawing, 4 tables 6 x 9
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2005
Cloth $29.00
ISBN: 9780226096261
Published November 2005
Paper $18.00
ISBN: 9780226096278
Published October 2006
Related links: Read an interview with the author.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Changing Meaning of Play
Part I. The Synthetic World: A Tour
Chapter 1. Daily Life on a Synthetic Earth
Chapter 2. The User
Chapter 3. The Mechanics of World-Making
Chapter 4. Emergent Culture: Institutions within Synthetic Reality
Chapter 5. The Business of World-Making
Part II. When Boundaries Fade
Chapter 6. The Almost-Magic Circle
Chapter 7. Free Commerce
Chapter 8. The Economics of Fun: Behavior and Design
Chapter 9. Governance
Chapter 10. Topographies of Terror
Chapter 11. Toxic Immersion and Internal Security
Part III. Threats and Opportunities
Chapter 12. Implications and Policies
Chapter 13. Into the Age of Wonder
Appendix: A Digression on Virtual Reality
Notes
References
Index
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