Systems at Play: The Construction of International Systems in Social Impact Games

<p>This thesis explores how game makers conceive of and navigate the intersection between digital systems and real world systems by asking, how can social impact game designers shape procedural rhetoric to effectively address complex real world systems with digital systems? By examining three game case studies, I reach four significant findings regarding player agency, subversive play, design approaches to scale, and game difficulty in regards to systems fluency.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in International Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

International Studies

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Albor, Jorge

Contributors dc:contributor

• Prof. Dorothy Kidd

• games
• global systems
• video games
• serious games
• games for change
• game design
• Film and Media Studies
• Interactive Arts
• Other International and Area Studies
• Other Political Science
• Speech and Rhetorical Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/3

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:thes-1003