Game Design Research
An Introduction to Theory & Practice
Book Details
| Authors | Petri Lankoski, Jussi Holopainen |
| Publisher | ETC Press |
| Published | 2017 |
| Edition | 1st |
| Paperback | 230 pages |
| Language | English |
| ISBN-13 | 9781387408368, 9781387408375 |
| ISBN-10 | 1387408364, 1387408372 |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives |
Book Description
Design research, or design studies as it is also called, has been gaining momentum as a field of academic inquiry since the beginning of 20th century. Originally, design research focused on design methods and processes but it has moved to cover more varied research questions related to design. Current research topics include, for example, how to study design and what methods can be used to study design along with the more fundamental questions such as what is design in the first place and what kinds of knowledge design research produces. The topics of design research have also become more wide and varied with active research on architecture, information systems, product, service, graphic, and interaction design to name a few. Game design research, however, has received surprisingly little attention regardless of the large body of work in the more general design research.
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