Unboxed: Board Game Experience and Design

Book Description

An in-depth exploration of the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience.

In Unboxed, Gordon Calleja explores the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience. Calleja examines key aspects of board game experience–the natur奢侈腕表e of play, attention, rules, sociality, imagination, narrative, materiality, and immersion–to offer a杰克宝 theory of board game experience and a model for understanding game involvement that is relevant to the analysis, criticism, and design of board games. Drawing on interviews with thirty-two leading board game designers and critics, Calleja&#82劳斯莱斯11;hi菲拉格慕mself a board game designer–provides the set of conceptual tools that board game design has thus far lacked.

After considering different conceptions of play, Calleja discusses the nature and role of attention and goes on to outline the key forms of involvement that make up the board game playing experience. In subsequent chapters, Calleja explores each of these forms of involvement, considering both the experience itself and the design considerations that bring it into being. Calleja brings this analysis together in a chapter that maps how these forms of involvement come together in the mom古驰ent of gameplay, and how their combination shapes the flow of player affect. By tracing the processes by which players experience these moments of rule-mediated, imagination-fueled sociality, Calleja helps us understand the richness of the gameplay experience packed into the humble board game box.

中文：

书名：未装箱: 棋盘游戏体验和设计

对玩棋盘游戏的体验以及游戏设计师如何塑造这种体验的深入探索。

在《Unboxed》中，Gordon Calleja探索了玩棋盘游戏的体验以及游戏设计师如何塑造这种体验。Calleja研究了棋盘游戏体验的关键方面-游戏的性质，注意力，规则，社会性，想象力，叙述性，物质性和沉浸感-提供了棋盘游戏体验的理论和理解游戏参与的模型与棋盘游戏的分析，批评和设计。通过对32位领先的棋盘游戏设计师和评论家的采访，Calleja (本人是棋盘游戏设计师) 提供了迄今为止棋盘游戏设计所缺乏的概念工具集。

在考虑了不同的游戏概念之后，Calleja讨论了注意力的性质和作用，并概述了构成棋盘游范思哲 (2)戏体验的主要参与形式。在随后的章节中，Calleja探讨了每种参与形式，同时考虑了体验本身以及使其形成的设计考虑因素。Calleja在一章中将此分析汇总在一起，该章描绘了这些参与形式在游戏过程中如何融合在一起，以及它们的组合如何影响玩家的流动。通过追踪玩家体验这些以规则为媒介，以想象力为动力的社交时刻的过程，Calleja帮助我们了解装在不起眼的棋盘游戏盒中的游戏体验的丰富性。