3: Interaction Pa erns
For each of the interaction pa erns, create a list of
your favorite games in each pa ern. If you can??™t think
of any games in a particular pa ern, research games
in that area and play several of them.
3.10 Team competition: Halo 3
3.9 Cooperative play: Lord of the Rings
board game
Persuasive Games
by Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost is a professor of digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner at
Persuasive Games LLC. He is the author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism and
Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames.
How do video games express ideas? Without understanding how games can be expressive in a general
sense, it is hard to understand how they might be persuasive. And how do video games make arguments?
Video games are di?¬? erent from oral, textual, visual, or ?¬? lmic media, and thus when they try to persuade, they
do so in a di?¬? erent fashion from speech, writing, images, or moving images.
How Video Games Express Ideas
Video games are good at representing the behavior of systems.
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